40, yo!, same as Eminem will be in October. Raised in Worcester, Luke Caswell started singing with the Boston hip hop band Moreplay, but moved on from the city and the genre. He says, "I know a lot of gay rappers that really consider themselves hip hop and want to be accepted by hip hop producers, and my point of view is, 'Why bother? Why spend all my time and energy trying to make a culture who hasn’t acknowledged my existence for the past twenty years accept me?'" Now a New Yorker, he djs and hosts weekly club nights downtown. He was an opening act on the Cyndi Lauper/ Debbie Harry/ Erasure/ everybody True Colors tour in 2007, played Dior Hommes after party in 2008, judged RuPaul's Drag Race, and has had his songs played on LoGo and True Blood. To date his biggest hit is the sweet and sweaty ode to all things oral, Ice Cream Truck. The DIY charm of that suckadelic jingle is missing from his most recent release, a duet with Peaches called Unzip Me. His next will be Rice & Beans, a gay romance with an uptown Dominican hottie. This summer he plays Albuquerque, Greensboro, Vegas, Norfolk, Barcelona, and Indianapolis. Read a recent interview.
[On some internet pages Cazwell's birth year has been changed from 1972 to 1979. Maybe the older date was a mistake, or possibly this is a professional nuance between Cazwell and Luke Caswell, in the same convoluted way that Queen Latifah "isn't gay" but Dana Owens is a lesbian.]
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