Michelle Visage

Michelle Visage is a singer and TV/radio host.

Early life

Visage graduated from an arts high school in South Plainfield, New Jersey, and then attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan.^[1]

Career

Visage auditioned for and won a place in Seduction, an R&B and dance vocal trio assembled by Robert Clivilles and David Cole and that signed with A&M Records in 1990.^[1] The group had several pop and dance hits, including "Two to Make It Right". After the group's breakup, Visage collaborated with freestyle dance act TKA as a guest vocalist on the song "Crash (Have Some Fun)".^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, she provided lead vocals to another dance act assembled by Clivilles & Cole, The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. Its song "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day", a cover version of the Bill Withers song "Lovely Day", was included on the soundtrack to The Bodyguard and became a #1 dance single that year, peaking at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 early the next year.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996 Visage became the co-host of RuPaul's VH1 talk show The RuPaul Show. She also co-hosted RuPaul on WKTU's morning show from 1996-2002. She has also hosted such television programming as VH1's red carpet coverage of the 1998 Grammys and, in 2002, Grease's 25th-anniversary re-release party.

Visage was co-host of The Jamz Session on Hot 92 Jamz (KHHT) in Los Angeles from 2002-2005. In 2005, she returned to New York City where she served as co-host of The Morning Mix on (WNEW-FM) until December 2006. During the later part of 2006 she was also heard on Sirius Satellite Radio's The Beat 36, but left Sirius.^{[citation needed]} On March 12, 2007, she became a co-host of the morning show on SUNNY 104.3 in West Palm Beach, Florida.^[2] On January 10, 2011, she joined 93.9 MIA in Miami as the host of the new MIA Morning Show on 93.9 MIA in Miami; she left Miami and WMIA in December 2011 and moved back to Los Angeles. On January 24, 2011, Visage debuted as the second permanent judge on the Logo TV's reality-television series RuPaul's Drag Race, where she replaced former judge Merle Ginsberg.

Discography

Albums/Groups

• 1989: Seduction
• 1992: The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album
• 1993: The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
• 1997: Ho, Ho, Ho

Singles

Filmography

Radiography

Over her career, Visage has shared the airwaves with celeb co-hosts RuPaul, Sinbad, and Mario Lopez.

References

External links

• Official website
• Michelle Visage on the Internet Movie Database

See also

• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart