Kevin Aviance Is Back In The House
metroweekly.comBillboard Dance Club charts, he and Bailey have found precious few opportunities to work together again.“He came back to D.C.
when I did the Tracks reunion at Town years ago,” says Bailey, co-owner of D.C.’s dearly-missed Town Danceboutique. “But before that, it had been years and years since we’d been able to work together.”Well, the time has come for these two dance music masters to sync up their beats at this month’s Project GLOW, the 2-day dance/EDM party filling the RFK festival grounds with three stages of music, performances, art, and loads of ecstatically happy festgoers.Aviance will headline Secret Garden, curated by Bailey.
It will also feature The Carry Nation, DJs Lemz, Keenan Orr, JJ202, Wess, KS, PWRPUFF, and Bailey himself. The goal, says Bailey, was to showcase local LGTBQ talent, “but also…to have Kevin Aviance involved because he does represent a lot about the history of club culture of this city.
He cut his teeth here. And obviously, his career has taken a great turn this past year with his involvement on the Renaissance album.”Oh, yeah, that — early one morning last summer, Aviance awoke to find his voice booming out from Beyoncé’s culture-shifting Renaissance album, courtesy of a sample from his club hit “Cunty.” By happenstance, he’d only months prior released a new house track on Nervous Records with DJ Gomi called “I’m Back,” and suddenly he was indeed, in a bigger way than he could have anticipated.“It changed my life.
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