Storm Florez at the National Queer Arts Festival

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Storm Florez at the National Queer Arts Festival
June 13, 3:38 PM
Author: Sarah Marloff

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The 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival is officially in full swing. With amazing queer performances happening nightly throughout the month of June I decided to highlight a handful of the amazing trans artists and their events that should not be missed!

Singer songwriter StormMiguel Florez has been performing and creating music since he was a kid, growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "I used to write little songs in my head and then on the piano and sing them to my family and friends." After coming out in high school Florez started getting more serious about music performing monthly at The Feminist Coffeehouse, and sneaking into queer bars with older friends to perform. "Once, an older [lesbian] told a bar manager that she was my mom so I could get in." In his mid-twenties Florez moved to San Francisco.

Before starting Testosterone he recorded a solo CD Standing Between the Day and Night. "Because of testosterone, I sound nothing like I did when I recorded that CD, but I still really like it.