Athens Boys Choir brings trans spoken word and hip hop to Eureka, this Sunday

[Natasha]

Athens Boys Choir brings trans spoken word and hip hop to Eureka, this Sunday

http://www.times-standard.com/entertainment/ci_10803422
10/24/2008

The idea of the Athens Boys Choir was a bit of a joke in the
beginning. Two transsexual men, who had spent some time in the spoken
word scene in Athens, Ga., got together and decided to make an album
of spoken word and hip-hop.

The name of the group came from the diverse backgrounds of Rocket, who
grew up Catholic, and Harvey Katz, who grew up Jewish, and "some sort
of religious context felt really good to us," says Katz, now the sole
member of the "choir." "Athens Boys Choir has this sort of gay
innuendo in itself, and it came to us one day and we just rolled with
it."