Flora Gionest-Roussy
Flora Gionest-Roussy | |
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 Flora Gionest-Roussy in 2016. | |
| Born | 20 November 1995 Chandler, Quebec |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, actor |
Flora Gionest-Roussy (known professionally as Flora Gionest) is a French Canadian actress, self-portrait photographer, singer-songwriter and drag queen.
Biography
[edit]Born in Chandler, Quebec,[1] and raised in the community of Pabos Mills, Flora struggled with anti-queer bullying for years before dropping out of high school at 15 and leaving her hometown at 17.[2]
She became homeless in Montreal for two years before launching Silver Catalano (2015-2019) as a drag musical project,[3] first attracting widespread media attention in 2016 and 2017 for her synthwave single Wave.[1]
Her career has been marked by LGBTQ+ activism, including being a part of the first drag show ever staged in the Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "L'artiste Silver Catalano tourne un vidéoclip à Chandler". Ici Radio-Canada, 17 May 2016.
- ↑ Alain Brunet, "Quitter la prostitution, s'évader dans la musique". La Presse, 4 January 2017.
- ↑ Catherine Genest and Marie Paris, "L’art de la drag". Voir, 7 April 2017.
- ↑ "Gaspé LGBTQ group breaks barriers with 'historic' drag show". CBC News Montreal, 20 February 2017.
- ↑ "FLORAA: le genre et la musique main dans la main". Radio-Canada (in Canadian French). Retrieved 11 March 2025.
- ↑ "Changement de genre: au-delà de la prise d'hormones". Radio-Canada (in French). 14 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
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