| For a while in the 1980s, she was a figure in the New York cabaret scene. The link is to a Stephen Holden review of one of her shows. At one point, in 1988 or early 89, I think, The Ballroom, where she tended to perform, publicized her latest gig by holding an Yma Sumac lookalike contest! Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the contestants were men. |
