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Jake Shears

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Jason F. Sellards (born October 3, 1978), better known as Jake Shears, is an American singer and songwriter. [1]

95 relations: ABBA, Alternative rock, Amadou & Mariam, Anderson Cooper, Andy Bell (singer), Aphrodite (album), Apple Inc., …Like Clockwork, Babydaddy, Baptists, Billboard (magazine), Blondie (band), Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Calvin Harris, Cher, Chris Moukarbel, Ciao! (Tiga album), Civil partnership in the United Kingdom, Closer to the Truth (Cher album), Collateral (album), Coming out, Compact disc, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Savage, David Bowie, David Furnish, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Electric Blue (album), Electroclash, Elton John, Erasure, Erotic dance, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Filthy/Gorgeous, Flute, Folila, Friday Harbor High School, Glam rock, Go-go dancing, Guitar, Hit single, Hot in Herre, I Believe in You (Kylie Minogue song), It Gets Better Project, ITunes Store, Jake Shears (album), Jason Moore (director), John Cameron Mitchell, ..., Keyboard instrument, Kinky Boots (musical), Kylie Minogue, Lead vocalist, Leo Sayer, Lexington, Kentucky, LGBT culture in New York City, Los Angeles, Madonna (entertainer), Matthew Chojnacki, Mesa, Arizona, Music download, Nervo (DJs), New York Dolls, Nile Rodgers, Northwest School, Occidental College, Paper (magazine), Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Pop music, Queen (band), Queens of the Stone Age, Radical Faeries, Roxy Music, San Juan Island, Scissor Sisters, Seattle, Single (music), Songwriter, Streaming media, Strip club, Take It Like a Man (Cher song), Tales of the City, The Advocate, The Beatles, The New School, The Observer, The Other Boys, The Village Voice, Tiga (musician), Travis Jeppesen, Ultimate Kylie, Vladislav Delay, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Expand index (45 more) »

ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Bamako 15 April 1958).

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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, television personality, and author.

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Andy Bell (singer)

Andrew Ivan Bell (born 25 April 1964) is the lead singer of the English synth-pop duo Erasure.

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Aphrodite (album)

Aphrodite is the eleventh studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, released on 5 July 2010 by Parlophone.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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…Like Clockwork

Like Clockwork is the sixth studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on June 3, 2013, on Matador Records in the UK, and on June 4 in the United States.

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Babydaddy

Scott Hoffman (born September 1, 1976), known by his stage name Babydaddy, is an American musician and the Ivor Novello Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, backing vocalist and lyricist for the U.S. glam rock band, Scissor Sisters.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Calvin Harris

Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Cher

Cher (born May 20, 1946 as Cherilyn Sarkisian, Շերիլին Սարգիսեան) is an American singer and actress.

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Chris Moukarbel

Chris Moukarbel is an American director and producer.

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Ciao! (Tiga album)

Ciao! is the second studio album from Montreal DJ/producer Tiga.

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Civil partnership in the United Kingdom

Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom are a form of civil union granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allowing same-sex couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage.

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Closer to the Truth (Cher album)

Closer to the Truth is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer and actress Cher.

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Collateral (album)

Collateral is the debut studio album by the Australian twin duo NERVO.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist.

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Dan Savage

Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Furnish

David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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Electric Blue (album)

Electric Blue is the debut solo album by Erasure frontman Andy Bell, released 3 October 2005 by Sanctuary Records.

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke.

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Erotic dance

An erotic dance is a dance that provides erotic entertainment and whose objective is the stimulation of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions in viewers.

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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School.

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Filthy/Gorgeous

"Filthy/Gorgeous" is a song by the American disco group Scissor Sisters.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Folila

Folila is the sixth studio album by Mali musicians Amadou & Mariam.

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Friday Harbor High School

Friday Harbor High School is a four-year public high school located in Friday Harbor, Washington, USA.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Go-go dancing

Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at nightclubs or other venues where music is played.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hit single

A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular.

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Hot in Herre

"Hot in Herre" is a song by American rapper Nelly from his second studio album Nellyville (2002).

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I Believe in You (Kylie Minogue song)

"I Believe in You" is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her ninth greatest hits compilation, Ultimate Kylie (2004).

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It Gets Better Project

It Gets Better is an Internet-based 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in the United States by gay activist, author, media pundit, and journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller on September 21, 2010, in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Jake Shears (album)

Jake Shears is the self-titled debut solo album by Jake Shears, scheduled to be released on August 10, 2018.

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Jason Moore (director)

Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.

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John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American actor, writer and director, best known for originating the title role in the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and reprising it in the 2001 film adaptation directed by him, as well as for directing the films Shortbus (2006) and Rabbit Hole (2010).

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kinky Boots (musical)

Kinky Boots is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian-British singer and actress.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Leo Sayer

Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948) is a British born singer-songwriter musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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LGBT culture in New York City

New York City has one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Matthew Chojnacki

Matthew Chojnacki (born January 4, 1975), is an American writer on film and music.

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Mesa, Arizona

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Music download

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

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Nervo (DJs)

Nervo (stylised as NERVO) are an Australian DJ duo comprising twin sisters Miriam and Olivia Nervo.

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New York Dolls

The New York Dolls were an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist.

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Northwest School

The Northwest School (originally The Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and Environment) is an independent day and boarding school located on Seattle, Washington's First Hill.

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Occidental College

Occidental College is a private liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Paper (magazine)

Paper, stylized as PAPER, is a New York City-based independent magazine focusing on fashion, popular culture, nightlife, music, art and film.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age are an American rock band formed in 1996 in Palm Desert, California.

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Radical Faeries

The Radical Faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and countercultural movement seeking to redefine queer consciousness through secular spirituality.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.

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San Juan Island

San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.

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Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters is an American pop/rock band formed in 2001.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

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Strip club

Strip clubs are venues where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances.

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Take It Like a Man (Cher song)

"Take It Like a Man" is a pop-dance track written by Cher, Tim Powell, Tebey Ottoh and Mary Leay.

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Tales of the City

Tales of the City is a series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin.

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The Advocate

The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Other Boys

"The Other Boys" is a song performed by Australian twin sisters Nervo featuring Kylie Minogue, Jake Shears and Nile Rodgers.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Tiga (musician)

Tiga James Sontag (born 1974) is a Canadian musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music.

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Travis Jeppesen

Travis Jeppesen is an American writer and artist.

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Ultimate Kylie

Ultimate Kylie is the ninth greatest hits album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, and her first greatest hits released under her contract with Parlophone, her record company since 2000.

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Vladislav Delay

Vladislav Delay is the most frequently used pseudonym of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick, East Williamsburg, and Ridgewood, Queens to the east; and Fort Greene and the East River to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Shears

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