FRENCHIE-FIED Openly bisexual performer Frenchie Davis kicks off Pride weekend
with a concert at the offi cial COWP Weekend Launch Party
CJAIME DONELSON ome Out With Pride’s
Weekend Launch Party will
feature Grammy-nominated
performer Frenchie Davis.
Davis came out as bisexual in 2012.
As a strong advocate for the LGBTQ
community, she has performed at Pride
events in Los Angeles, New York City,
Chicago, Honolulu and San Francisco.
The singer fi rst came to the public’s
attention when she was a contestant on the
second season of “American Idol” in 2003.
Davis followed that up with an appearance on
NBC’s competition show “The Voice” in 2011.
Davis is also a veteran of the stage,
appearing in “RENT,” “Dreamgirls,”
“Mahalia: A Gospel Musical” and “Ain’t
Misbehavin’.”
Davis most recently starred in “The
View Upstairs,” an Off -Broadway
musical about the Upstairs Lounge
arson attack in New Orleans that killed
32 patrons at a gay bar in 1973.
Watermark touched base with her
ahead of the singer’s appearance at
COWP’s Launch Party Oct. 11.
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