Wacky and strange, but true The nine lives of singer Baby Dee
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_256/wacky.html
03/27/2008
"Never having heard her music, I went to see Baby Dee at Joe's Pub out of sheer curiosity, my interest piqued by her bizarre résumé. A transsexual performance artist/songwriter/bear-suit wearing, Central Park-busking harpist/Coney Island sideshow attraction who later played piano in a church in the Bronx for a decade before returning to Cleveland to care for ailing parents and run a tree removal business?"