Dee Has Her Day

[Shana A]

Dee Has Her Day
Experimental singer makes a grand, ornate album
by Jeff Niesel

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/dee-has-her-day/Content?oid=1886673

Baby Dee's forthcoming album, A Book of Songs for Anne Marie, had a particularly long gestation period. The flamboyant transgendered singer with a colorful past started working on it in 2002 during a brutally cold Cleveland winter.

"Basically, it's one of those things that hit me like a ton of bricks," says Dee. "I worked on it for about a year or so, but it came at a weird time. I was a little bit crazy. I totally retired from any kind of music thing. I had stopped doing shows and was looking after my parents in Cleveland. I didn't even record. I stopped singing, even to myself."