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Title: Do you know who you're listening to?
Post by: LostInTime on December 20, 2006, 11:09:51 AM
Post by: LostInTime on December 20, 2006, 11:09:51 AM
link (http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/178878,CST-FTR-payne20.article)
Being Diana Ross isn't easy. Especially if you aren't Diana Ross. Most especially if you're a man living as a woman trying to impersonate Diana Ross.
But longtime Baton Show Lounge star Sheri Payne pulls it off.
"I was sitting in my room one day and my co-worker Monica was saying, 'Why don't you do Diana Ross?' " Payne recalls while putting on her (actually, Ross') face shortly before the first of three 90-minute performances on a recent Wednesday evening. "I said, 'I don't even have a Diana Ross costume.' So I just put on a black gown and a big ol' nappy wig one day and she said, 'My God, you could've been making money on this for years.' "
Being Diana Ross isn't easy. Especially if you aren't Diana Ross. Most especially if you're a man living as a woman trying to impersonate Diana Ross.
But longtime Baton Show Lounge star Sheri Payne pulls it off.
"I was sitting in my room one day and my co-worker Monica was saying, 'Why don't you do Diana Ross?' " Payne recalls while putting on her (actually, Ross') face shortly before the first of three 90-minute performances on a recent Wednesday evening. "I said, 'I don't even have a Diana Ross costume.' So I just put on a black gown and a big ol' nappy wig one day and she said, 'My God, you could've been making money on this for years.' "