Heeb: HQ : Chevonne: Jewish Princess with Drag Sensibilities Performs Tonight at Heebonism

hq

Chevonne: Jewish Princess with Drag Sensibilities Performs Tonight at Heebonism

Photos by Katie Osgood

Meet Chevonne, a redheaded sex-bomb and proud resident of New Jersey. She lives in a world where 7-foot drag queens are approachable and the 90s are old-school. With her new single "My Menorah" (which she performs tonight at New York’s Heebonism party), Chevonne’s working the club scene, thoroughly enjoying her success and flaunting her tits whenever possible. Heeb caught up with the singer to talk about her eclectic following, why she nicknamed her privates after a piece of Judaica and how she’s really just another Jewish girl looking for love.

Let’s talk about your hair for a minute. Is it real?

Oh, it’s real.

Can I touch it?

Um, sure. I just got a fresh salon job.

I’m curious about your getup. Is Chevonne a character? You are fairly over the top.

It’s totally me, too much all the time. I love to be in full drag.

chevonne jewish music heebonism drag queen katie osgood yonah schimmel

Do you feel like you intimidate people because you’re so completely made up all the time?

I would hope I’m not intimidating. I would rather be approachable. When I see a drag queen, I immediately get the urge to run up and talk to her.

Do you have a big drag following?

I do have quite a few drag queen friends, and a lot of friends in drag who aren’t drag queens per se.

What do you mean?

I am just very drawn to flamboyant, weird personalities. People who are a little weird are also very drawn to my music.

I see. What are you working on right now?

Well, I really like this new thing where you can have a single, release it and totally ride the wave of that one song. I have these two songs that I’ve been working on. When all the holiday stuff dies on New Year’s Day, I’ll probably be performing those two songs in the gay club scene, or maybe the hipster scene, or whatever scene will embrace me, I suppose.

Just those two songs over and over again, huh? I’ve been listening to "My Menorah" quite a bit. Do you think you gravitate toward Jewish themes in your music? Are you trying to be ironic?

Sometimes songs just come to me in less than five minutes. "My Menorah" is an example of that. I was just sitting at my piano and this really old-school 90s riff just poured out of me. With that said, there’s always a little bit of schtick in my music. I want to make people laugh.

I just want to say that it is very cold today. Are you really going out dressed like that?

My mother is here. I’ve been hearing it all morning.

I think your skirt might have gotten shorter since I’ve been here. Do you keep your mom around to make sure your ass doesn’t escape the confinements of your fishnet tights?

Yeah, she’s very supportive.

Before we wrap it up here, I am sure our readers are dying to know if you’re currently attached.

I don’t have a boyfriend. As a matter of fact, I’m on JDate. I am pretty easy to find, too.

Special thanks to Yonah Schimmel Knishery.

older newer

comments

submit a comment

longge says,

12.31.09 at 1:12 am

Why the special thanks to Yonah Schimmel Knishery?

garxland says,

01.21.10 at 1:01 am

Is this an ad or an interview?

alicea says,

01.25.10 at 4:01 am

.love abercrombie

chenmei4150 says,

02.22.10 at 7:02 pm

Clothing has Ed Hardy Shoes always been Ed Hardy T Shirts a thing that Ed Hardy Tops has been given Ed Hardy Hoodies a great importance Ed Hardy Swimwears by human beings. It displays ed hardy the attitude ed hardy clothing that ed hardy jeans the people exhibit. Many brands have been existent christian audigier in the clothing industry ed hardy uk and a famous ed hardy mens one among them is the ed hardy womens brand. Ed Hardy is a very respectable clothing line created ed hardy kids by Christian Audigier.To ed hardy swimwear begin with ed hardy bags let me tell you that Ed Hardy is jordan shoes an extremely abercrombie and fitch talented artist in Irezumi abercrombie which is a style of Japanese tattoos which he learnt abercrombie t shirts while he was studying in Japan. When hollister he was invited by Christian Audigier hollister clothing to open his own line of clothes he took Abercrombie and Fitch Outerwear his tattoo designs which were already very popular to a much larger scale ed hardy uk and used it in his Ed Hardy clothing whether it is great prints Abercrombie and Fitch Hoodies , loungewear, boxers or underwear that people spend a sizeable amount of their money on.br/>
The Abercrombie and Fitch Polos thing that makes Ed hardy Clothing unique is their vintage designs. Because these designs never go out of style, choosing to buy these ed hardy jeans Abercrombie and Fitch Shirts
clothes is a smart decision. Other clothing styles in the market easily go out of style and they will usually end up in the back of you clothes. To save on clothing expenses and yet, still be ins style, choose these clothes from Ed Hardy.