Mama Alto Live at The Count's
Fierce, femme and fabulous, the multi-award winning Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva best known for her velvet vocals and spellbinding storytelling through song. She is a transgender and queer person of colour who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness and power in vulnerability.
Mama Alto has performed with legendary burlesque production house Finucane & Smith, was a featured soloist in Taylor Mac’s “24 Decade History of Popular Music” at Melbourne Festival 2017, and is the co-creator of the highly acclaimed variety cabaret “Gender Euphoria” Australia’s largest ever trans & gender diverse main stage production which premiered at Arts Centre Melbourne. Recently she was awarded the Australia Council Kirk Robson Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
“Mama Alto is an exceptionally talented singer, who makes the question as to whether it is a woman or a man singing obsolete. It is clearly an angel.” – The Conversation
This performance will also be live-streamed for public broadcast and recorded, which may include ambient sounds and vision of the audience.
Please be reminded all visitors to Monash University Performing Arts Centres will be required to comply with government and University vaccination requirements.
The combination of fierce femininity and endearing masculine feminity from the two performers, plus their outstanding and sublime artistry made for a magical event.