Mz Neon is a genre-bending musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and multimedia artist using performance and lyrics to express her sexuality as a trans woman and defy misconceptions about herself and anyone who identifies outside of the binary spectrum - both gender wise and ideologically. A lyrical provocateur, Neon confronts issues of identity, sexuality, politics, spirituality, and lived experiences as a trans-femme-fatale. She is a triple threat of sharp wit, hypnotic sensuality, and musical virtuosity. Neon commands an elegantly tough, yet unapologetic ownership, of her visceral vulnerability ─ on and off the stage ─ to local and international audiences alike.
Born in Boston, MA, Neon moved to New York City after high school where she spent over a decade performing in a number of bands and working in fashion as a couturier, and where she befriended some of the most influential characters of the trans movement; such as, Amanda Lepore, Laverne Cox, Flawless Sabrina, Allanah Starr, Jamie Clayton, and countless drag queens, sex workers, stealth queens, pier queens, and artists of trans experience. Her social circle and chosen family came from drastically different subcultures ─ between the ballroom community, the punk and rock world, and avant-garde fashion circuits.
Through the many walks of life Mz Neon traversed in NYC she befriended many icons and luminaries of the downtown scene such as Kembra Pfahler, Maripol, Nick Zedd, Philly Abe, Theo Kogan, Miss Guy, Lady Bunny, Mistress Formika, Debbie Harry and Lydia Lunch. She had an electro pop solo project and she went on to form other collective musical projects such as Youthquake and the short-lived industrial-space-rock band, called Sphinx.
