Devin Tait

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Having transplanted himself from rural Western Kansas to Los Angeles around the turn of the millennium, Devin Tait found himself quickly derailed from his original plan to join a boyband. Meeting a couple of guitar playing lesbians at various karaoke nights around the San Fernando Valley led Tait to form the band Shitting Glitter along with Amy Crosby and Von Edwards, later joined by Devin's brother, Brandon Strecker. The band became an underground sensation in the queer community over the course of the next decade, performing at events from Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, to the Queer Media and Entertainment Conference in New York City, and gay pride festivals from Los Angeles, to Reykjavik, Iceland and Winnipeg, Canada. After the band released it’s third full‐length album “Open For Business,” Tait decided it was time to branch out on his own. Tait had been working on a collection of songs that would end up becoming his debut solo album, It’s Never the Way You Imagine It. Initially premiering some of the songs in an acoustic setting with just a piano and a microphone at The Palms Bar in West Hollywood, Tait quickly formed a band to perform the songs in a manner that sounded more like the fully produced, densely layered versions that would comprise the album. Tapping his brother and long‐time collaborator Brandon Glen (also formerly of Shitting Glitter) on guitar, classically trained pianist Elene Chung, and burlesque artist Dolly Dagger on backing vocals, Devin Tait an

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