QBoy
Encyclopedia
QBoy is a UK-based rapper, producer
, DJ, writer
and presenter. One of the original few out rappers in hip-hop circa 2001 that became pioneers of the new sub-genre colloquially known as "homo hop
". QBoy is currently DJ, producing, remixing and performing dance music under the name Sam LeMans.
(Spanish) father. He studied at De Montfort University
in Leicester
and received his Contemporary Dance, Acting and Performing Arts B.A. Hons degree.
In the early days Brito was a journalist
and editor
of the website gayhiphop.com. He has written for Gay Times
, attitude
, The Pink Paper and Exprezo, and has interviewed artists Salt-N-Pepa
, Princess Superstar
, Beverley Knight
, Mark Ronson
, Blu Cantrell
, Mica Paris
, Nicole Wray
and Five Star
.
Brito was originally in a group with DJ Mistermaker and rapper Ill Form, recording under the name of Q-Form. Their first recordings, "Dirty Dirty" and "3 Different Stories", were featured on homo-hop CD collections Phat Family volume 1 and Phat Family volume 2, respectively. He was also part of the gay hip-hop DJ crew Pac-Man, which featured DJs NineBob, Gideon, Mistermaker, and fashion artist Noki
.
Q-Form changed its name to Q-Fam (for Queer Family) and its status from a group to a collective, to include Pac-Man members NineBob, Gideon and Noki and lesbian rapper Mz Fontaine
, with whom they recorded the track "New Era." Later members of Q-Fam included singer-songwriter/producer Wayne Latham, rapper Icykal, and vocalists Grace Orlando and Katanya.
UK gay magazine The Pink Paper featured the Q-Fam Collective with QBoy and Mistermaker on the front cover. Other front covers where QBoy has been featured include The Pink Paper, Gay & Night, AXM, One Magazine, gaynews.nl 'G and The Metro, for which he took part in the 60 Second Interview.
He has appeared on a number of TV shows, including "Boy George's Queerest TV Moments", "CD:UK", "BBC Three News", "Channel 4 News", "Pink TV", "Logo", "Flava", "The Salon", and the Channel 4 documentary "Coming Out To Class", where he was the presenter.
, Foxy Brown, Notorious B.I.G. and Trina
, with the notion "if they can be sexual explicit, so can I" making a political stand point on his prominent sexuality.
His first soulful and conscious track Quarter Life Crisis sampled long time idol Neneh Cherry
's hit Buffalo Stance and featured singer and producer Wayne Latham with lyrics inspired by his childhood, explaining the transformation from child to adult and drawing from his readings of the book Conversations With God
by Neale Donald Walsch
.
He continued writing in this style with the track "A Deal With God" which originally cleverly used Kate Bush
's Running Up That Hill and covered his experiences of homophobic bullying when at school. This propelled him into a more political stratosphere, performing for the Home Office, UK Government in 2006, and making him a patron of the charity Beatbullying
and the LGBT Excellence Centre Wales for which he is involved in a programme that goes into schools and breaks down the ideas of homophobia to teenagers.
He has also performed on the mainstages at EuroPride 2008 in Stockholm
, Sweden
which attracted over 80000 people, 2006 in London
, UK, 2005 in Oslo
, Norway
and 2003 in Manchester
, UK. He also played Manchester Pride in 2004 and 2005 and Pride London
in Trafalgar Square 2007 which attracted over 600000 people (UK), Stockholm Pride in 2007, Reykjavík Pride, Iceland
in 2007, Brisbane Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Brisbane
, Australia
in 2007, Resfest in Zurich
, Le Queens Club in Paris
, Queer Zagreb in Croatia
, Tallinn in Estonia
, Bruges
, and the Peace Out East 2004 festival in New York City
.
In August 2005, QBoy organised PeaceOUT UK, the first gay hip-hop festival in Europe. He also co-organised the following year's event in 2006.
He is featured in the homo-hop documentary Pick Up the Mic
and toured with the film in July 2006, performing at film festivals in Los Angeles
(Outfest
), Chicago
(The Gay Games
) and Philadelphia.
QBoy's CD releases include the E.P. Even The Women Like Him (2004), Remixes Don't Count — The Mixtape (2006). He has also released Quarter Life Crisis(2004), Q.B.O.Y. (Is Just So Fly)(2006), Faggot M.C.'s feat. Johnny Dangerous(2008), Oh Yeah(2008) and Coming Out 2 Play feat. She (2008)
His tracks "Bent Spittin" and "Quarter Life Crisis" both featured on the soundtrack to the film OpenCam.
QBoy shot his first music video, Quarter Life Crisis, in September 2004 in London
. The video also features the track "Bent Spittin" and is directed by Khalid Laith. He shot his second music video, Q.B.O.Y. (Is Just So Fly) in July 2006 in New York. This video was directed by Jarrah Gurrie and fashion photographer Nicolas Wagner.
QBoy was nominated for Performing Artist Of The Year at the 2005 GALAs, alongside Will Young
and Stephen Gately
.
He has written many articles for various magazines including Gay Times
, The Pink Paper and Boyz
where he currently has a monthly column. He famously interview soul superstar Mica Paris
for Gay Times
.
In February 2007 he presented the much acclaimed TV documentary Coming Out to Class for Channel 4
where he looked at his own experiences of homophobic bullying at his school and investigating what today's young gay teens are experiencing and demonstrating the lack of support they currently have. The personal and political nature of the film prompted an immediate response from British Parliament the day after its initial screening where an Early Day Motion
was passed in favor to look at the subject brought up in the film. He supported the TV documentary with two radio podcasts for Channel 4 Radio
which he also presented.
Later that year he was on Channel 4
again to take part in a live TV discussion show 40 Years Out.
In December 2007 he interviewed his long time idols, rap super group Salt-n-Pepa
in New York City for a radio documentary he created and co-produced with Made In Manchester Productions which was aired on BBC Radio 1Xtra
. He also presented a radio documentary on The Rise Of Homo-Hop for BBC Radio One in 2005 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/homohop539p01.shtml).
In late 2008 he toured the USA for three months, making New York City
his temporary home where he shot the music video to his single Coming Out 2 Play again with previous director Jarrah Gurrie and played extensively with over 30 live dates in New York City
, Seattle, Fort Lauderdale
and Key West
in Florida
, and Chicago
where he also shot a music video with Johnny Dangerous to their single Hotline which also features rapper Soce and he played a cameo in Johnny Dangerous's video Wan Dat (Ass Is). Plus he got extensive media coverage in HX
, Next
and interviews with Johnny McGovern, Daniel Nardicio
, Shawn Hollenbach
and Feast Of Fools
http://www.feastoffools.net/2008/11/page/3/
In 2009 QBoy released his long-awaited album Moxie, the single and music video to Coming Out 2 Play reached number 6 in the US LOGO Click Chart and was nominated as one of the best new videos of 2010 by LOGO. He also released music videos for Bounce Rave feat. Icykal, Keep Keepin' On feat Wayne Latham and Yellow Flower. The DVD release of documentary Pick Up The Mic
in which QBoy is one of the featured artists was also released.
QBoy is currently working on a dance project with NYC producer/DJ, Larry Tee under the name of Sam LeMans with new material due for release in 2011.
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, DJ, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and presenter. One of the original few out rappers in hip-hop circa 2001 that became pioneers of the new sub-genre colloquially known as "homo hop
Homo hop
Homo hop is a genre of hip hop music performed by LGBT artists and performers. It has been described as "a global movement of gay hip-hop MCs and fans determined to stake their claim in a genre too often associated with homophobia and anti-gay lyrics."...
". QBoy is currently DJ, producing, remixing and performing dance music under the name Sam LeMans.
History
Brito was born to an English mother and GomeranLa Gomera
La Gomera is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. In area, it is the second-smallest of the seven main islands of this group.- Political organization :...
(Spanish) father. He studied at De Montfort University
De Montfort University
De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...
in Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
and received his Contemporary Dance, Acting and Performing Arts B.A. Hons degree.
In the early days Brito was a journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
of the website gayhiphop.com. He has written for Gay Times
Gay Times
Gay Times is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazine for gay and bisexual men.-Publication and content:...
, attitude
Attitude (magazine)
Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Vitality Publishing. It is sold worldwide as a physical magazine and a digital download for the iPad and iPhone via the App Store. The first issue appeared in May 1994....
, The Pink Paper and Exprezo, and has interviewed artists Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
, Princess Superstar
Princess Superstar
Princess Superstar is an American emcee and DJ.Her musical style, as she describes it, is flip-flop — a mixture of 'hip hop, electroclash and electronica'.-Background:...
, Beverley Knight
Beverley Knight
Beverley Knight MBE is a British soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer who released her debut album in 1995. Heavily influenced by soul greats such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, Knight has released six studio albums to date...
, Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....
, Blu Cantrell
Blu Cantrell
Blu Cantrell is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter.-Biography:Tiffany Cobb was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. Her father was a Narragansett Native American and Cape Verdean, and played in the National Basketball Association...
, Mica Paris
Mica Paris
Mica Paris is an English soul singer, radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. Her forename is pronounced Misha.-Beginnings:Paris' roots are in soul and gospel music...
, Nicole Wray
Nicole Wray
Nicole Monique Wray, also known as simply Nicole, is an American R&B and hip hop singer. Her 1998 debut single, "Make It Hot"—written and produced by Timbaland and co-written by and featuring Missy Elliott—was certified gold.-Musical career:...
and Five Star
Five Star
Five Star are a British pop / R&B group, formed in 1983. Comprising siblings Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris and Delroy Pearson, they were known for their flamboyant image, matching costumes and heavily choreographed dance routines...
.
Brito was originally in a group with DJ Mistermaker and rapper Ill Form, recording under the name of Q-Form. Their first recordings, "Dirty Dirty" and "3 Different Stories", were featured on homo-hop CD collections Phat Family volume 1 and Phat Family volume 2, respectively. He was also part of the gay hip-hop DJ crew Pac-Man, which featured DJs NineBob, Gideon, Mistermaker, and fashion artist Noki
Noki
Noki is a commercial utility to explore and extract Phone book, SMS, Calendar, Memo, Bookmark and other user files from the backup file of Nokia phone ....
.
Q-Form changed its name to Q-Fam (for Queer Family) and its status from a group to a collective, to include Pac-Man members NineBob, Gideon and Noki and lesbian rapper Mz Fontaine
Mz Fontaine
Mz Fontaine is the stage name of lesbian rapper Naomi Romeo. She was born in Guyana June 1978 and moved to London in 1992.Mz Fontaine has been nominated for the Stonewall 2007 Entertainer Of The Year award....
, with whom they recorded the track "New Era." Later members of Q-Fam included singer-songwriter/producer Wayne Latham, rapper Icykal, and vocalists Grace Orlando and Katanya.
UK gay magazine The Pink Paper featured the Q-Fam Collective with QBoy and Mistermaker on the front cover. Other front covers where QBoy has been featured include The Pink Paper, Gay & Night, AXM, One Magazine, gaynews.nl 'G and The Metro, for which he took part in the 60 Second Interview.
Publicity
QBoy has been featured in articles worldwide, including The Guardian, TimeOut London, i-D Magazine, The Metro, Mixmag, Vice, Instinct, XY, PlanetOut.com, Akut, Shangay, Zero, Attitude, AXM, Boyz, Gay Times, The Pink Paper, QX, and on BBC Radio One, 1Xtra and Five Live.He has appeared on a number of TV shows, including "Boy George's Queerest TV Moments", "CD:UK", "BBC Three News", "Channel 4 News", "Pink TV", "Logo", "Flava", "The Salon", and the Channel 4 documentary "Coming Out To Class", where he was the presenter.
Works
QBoy's initial recordings had a tongue-in-cheek sexual humour which was inspired by his then current influences of artist such as Lil' KimLil' Kim
Kimberly Denise Jones , better known by her stage name Lil' Kim, is an American rapper and actress who was a member of the group Junior M.A.F.I.A.....
, Foxy Brown, Notorious B.I.G. and Trina
Trina
Katrina Laverne Taylor , better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper, songwriter and model from Miami, Florida. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's second studio album www.thug.com to the single "Nann Nigga"...
, with the notion "if they can be sexual explicit, so can I" making a political stand point on his prominent sexuality.
His first soulful and conscious track Quarter Life Crisis sampled long time idol Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...
's hit Buffalo Stance and featured singer and producer Wayne Latham with lyrics inspired by his childhood, explaining the transformation from child to adult and drawing from his readings of the book Conversations With God
Conversations with God
Conversations with God is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch, written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers...
by Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch , is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The nine books in the complete series are Conversations With God , Friendship with God, Communion with God, Conversations With God for Teens, The New Revelations, Tomorrow's God, and Home with God: In a Life That Never...
.
He continued writing in this style with the track "A Deal With God" which originally cleverly used Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
's Running Up That Hill and covered his experiences of homophobic bullying when at school. This propelled him into a more political stratosphere, performing for the Home Office, UK Government in 2006, and making him a patron of the charity Beatbullying
Beatbullying
Beatbullying is a multi-award winning UK charity that aims to empower young people to lead anti-bullying campaigns in their schools and local communities, and to build the capacity of local communities to sustain the work...
and the LGBT Excellence Centre Wales for which he is involved in a programme that goes into schools and breaks down the ideas of homophobia to teenagers.
He has also performed on the mainstages at EuroPride 2008 in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
which attracted over 80000 people, 2006 in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, UK, 2005 in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
and 2003 in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, UK. He also played Manchester Pride in 2004 and 2005 and Pride London
Pride London
Pride London is the name of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender registered charity which arranges LGBT events in London, most notably the annual gay pride parade which is held in June/July. The most recent Pride London was on 2 July 2011. The 2010 event was attended by 1 million people,...
in Trafalgar Square 2007 which attracted over 600000 people (UK), Stockholm Pride in 2007, Reykjavík Pride, Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
in 2007, Brisbane Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in 2007, Resfest in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Le Queens Club in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Queer Zagreb in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Tallinn in Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
, Bruges
Bruges
Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
, and the Peace Out East 2004 festival in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
In August 2005, QBoy organised PeaceOUT UK, the first gay hip-hop festival in Europe. He also co-organised the following year's event in 2006.
He is featured in the homo-hop documentary Pick Up the Mic
Pick Up the Mic
Pick Up the Mic is a documentary film, released in 2006, which profiles the underground LGBT hip hop scene and homohop, which is a subgenre of hip-hop that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rappers, DJ's and hip-hop artists. The film was directed by Alex Hinton.The documentary had...
and toured with the film in July 2006, performing at film festivals in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
(Outfest
Outfest
Outfest is an LGBT-oriented film showcase and festival in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1982 as the "Gay and Lesbian Media Festival and Conference", the name was changed to Outfest in 1994.-Programs:...
), Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
(The Gay Games
Gay Games
The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, artists, musicians, and others. It welcomes participants of every sexual orientation and every skill level...
) and Philadelphia.
QBoy's CD releases include the E.P. Even The Women Like Him (2004), Remixes Don't Count — The Mixtape (2006). He has also released Quarter Life Crisis(2004), Q.B.O.Y. (Is Just So Fly)(2006), Faggot M.C.'s feat. Johnny Dangerous(2008), Oh Yeah(2008) and Coming Out 2 Play feat. She (2008)
His tracks "Bent Spittin" and "Quarter Life Crisis" both featured on the soundtrack to the film OpenCam.
QBoy shot his first music video, Quarter Life Crisis, in September 2004 in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The video also features the track "Bent Spittin" and is directed by Khalid Laith. He shot his second music video, Q.B.O.Y. (Is Just So Fly) in July 2006 in New York. This video was directed by Jarrah Gurrie and fashion photographer Nicolas Wagner.
QBoy was nominated for Performing Artist Of The Year at the 2005 GALAs, alongside Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Young is a British singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominenceafter winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the now-worldwide Idols-format franchise...
and Stephen Gately
Stephen Gately
Stephen Patrick David Gately was an Irish pop singer–songwriter, actor, dancer, musician and author, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful...
.
He has written many articles for various magazines including Gay Times
Gay Times
Gay Times is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazine for gay and bisexual men.-Publication and content:...
, The Pink Paper and Boyz
Boyz (magazine)
Boyz is a free, London-based magazine, targeted at gay men and distributed mainly through gay bars, clubs and saunas in the United Kingdom. Published weekly, it tends to focus on news about the gay scene and celebrities popular with young scene-going gay men.Boyz is relatively light on "serious"...
where he currently has a monthly column. He famously interview soul superstar Mica Paris
Mica Paris
Mica Paris is an English soul singer, radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. Her forename is pronounced Misha.-Beginnings:Paris' roots are in soul and gospel music...
for Gay Times
Gay Times
Gay Times is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazine for gay and bisexual men.-Publication and content:...
.
In February 2007 he presented the much acclaimed TV documentary Coming Out to Class for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
where he looked at his own experiences of homophobic bullying at his school and investigating what today's young gay teens are experiencing and demonstrating the lack of support they currently have. The personal and political nature of the film prompted an immediate response from British Parliament the day after its initial screening where an Early Day Motion
Early day motion
An Early Day Motion , in the Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by Members of Parliament for debate "on an early day" . Controversial EDMs are not signed by Government Ministers, PPS or the Speaker of the House of Commons and very few are debated on the floor...
was passed in favor to look at the subject brought up in the film. He supported the TV documentary with two radio podcasts for Channel 4 Radio
Channel 4 Radio
Channel 4 Radio was a radio brand launched by Channel 4 in January 2007. On October 11, 2008 the closure was announced. It incorporated Oneword, in which Channel 4 purchased a 51% share in 2005, although it relinquished this share to co-owner UBS Media in January 2008.Listeners were required to...
which he also presented.
Later that year he was on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
again to take part in a live TV discussion show 40 Years Out.
In December 2007 he interviewed his long time idols, rap super group Salt-n-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
in New York City for a radio documentary he created and co-produced with Made In Manchester Productions which was aired on BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1...
. He also presented a radio documentary on The Rise Of Homo-Hop for BBC Radio One in 2005 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/homohop539p01.shtml).
In late 2008 he toured the USA for three months, making New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
his temporary home where he shot the music video to his single Coming Out 2 Play again with previous director Jarrah Gurrie and played extensively with over 30 live dates in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Seattle, Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...
and Key West
Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys. Key West is home to the southernmost point in the Continental United States; the island is about from Cuba....
in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, and Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
where he also shot a music video with Johnny Dangerous to their single Hotline which also features rapper Soce and he played a cameo in Johnny Dangerous's video Wan Dat (Ass Is). Plus he got extensive media coverage in HX
HX
HX may refer to:* Ĥ, a letter in the Esperanto alphabet* HX , a convoy code used during World War II* HX DOS Extender, a free software product* Hong Kong Airlines IATA code* Hx or Hx, shorthand for medical history...
, Next
Next Magazine (Santa Monica)
Next Magazine was an internationally distributed American music trade publication. Its primary audience was key decision makers at record labels, radio stations, retail, and artist management...
and interviews with Johnny McGovern, Daniel Nardicio
Daniel Nardicio
Daniel Nardicio is an American radio personality, Nightlife promoter, entrepreneur, and creator of the social network Dlist.com, and has often been referred to by the media as the “Gay Howard Stern.” He has over the course of the past decade obtained substantial notoriety for his extensive...
, Shawn Hollenbach
Shawn Hollenbach
Shawn Hollenbach is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor, based in New York City. As of 2010 he works at Comedy Central in the programming department. As a comic and actor he has performed around the country and throughout New York...
and Feast Of Fools
Feast of Fools
The Feast of Fools, known also as the festum fatuorum, festum stultorum, festum hypodiaconorum, or fête des fous, are the varying names given to popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated by the clergy and laity from the fifth century until the sixteenth century in several countries of Europe,...
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In 2009 QBoy released his long-awaited album Moxie, the single and music video to Coming Out 2 Play reached number 6 in the US LOGO Click Chart and was nominated as one of the best new videos of 2010 by LOGO. He also released music videos for Bounce Rave feat. Icykal, Keep Keepin' On feat Wayne Latham and Yellow Flower. The DVD release of documentary Pick Up The Mic
Pick Up the Mic
Pick Up the Mic is a documentary film, released in 2006, which profiles the underground LGBT hip hop scene and homohop, which is a subgenre of hip-hop that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rappers, DJ's and hip-hop artists. The film was directed by Alex Hinton.The documentary had...
in which QBoy is one of the featured artists was also released.
QBoy is currently working on a dance project with NYC producer/DJ, Larry Tee under the name of Sam LeMans with new material due for release in 2011.