Jazzmun
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Jazzmun | |
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| Born | Nichcalo Dion Crayton February 10, 1969 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, Drag Performer, |
| Years active | 1984 - present |
Jazzmun is the stage name of Nichcalo Dion Crayton ("Nic"), an American actor and nightclub performer specializing in female impersonation in the Los Angeles area.
Background
Originally from San Diego, California, Jazzmun made his first national television appearance on the talent variety show Puttin' on the Hits in 1984 in which he split his body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip synching as a "duet". Finding work immediately after that appearance for his theatric and modeling talents, he moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then Jazzmun has performed all over the world performing as either his stage character Jazzmun, his trademark Whitney Houston which he performed as in the female stage revue La Cage, Grace Jones or any number of other characters. In the late 1990s Jazzmun co-starred in the stage play Ask Any Girl as the character Mahogany Saint Ross, a name play-on-words to singer Diana Ross. Latina singer Gloria Estefan hired Jazzmun to perform in the music video of her remake hit Everlasting Love after seeing one of Jazzmun's performances. Later, drag icon RuPaul hired Jazzmun to also perform in his music video A Little Bit of Love which spoofed drag queens as aliens out to conquer the world. Jazzmun then released two of his own dance singles in 1997 on the Aqua Boogie label: "I´m Gonna Let You Have It" and "That Sound, That Beat". Later he produced another hit 2 Tired 2 B Shady which was later featured in Patrik-Ian Polk's highly anticipated and accomplished show Noah's Arc.
Select film resume
- Dreamgirls (2006) - Studio 54 Drag Queen
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) - Call Girl
- Hellbent (2004) - Black Pepper
- Punks (2000) - Chris/Crystal
- Blast from the Past (1999) - Hooker
- The Big Brass Ring (1999) - Little John John
Select television resume
- Big Shots - Dontrelle
- Desperate Housewives - Transsexual
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Mercedes
- CSI: NY - Bambi
- Nip/Tuck - Transgendered Man
- The John Larroquette Show - Pat
- The Shield - Frank Gilmore
- NYPD Blue - Peaches
- Roseanne - Diana Ross
- ER - Transgender woman
- The Cleaner - Tanya
- The Closer - Nancy
- The Wayans Bros - Albert/Alberta
- Sons of Anarchy - Tranny Drug Dealer
- [GILMORE GIRLS] 2nd Season ep. 3 - Janet Jackson
External links
- African-American male actors
- African-American musicians
- American dance musicians
- American house musicians
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American female impersonators
- LGBT musicians from the United States
- LGBT African Americans
- LGBT rights activists from the United States
- Living people
- Male actors from San Diego, California
- Drag queens
- 1969 births
- Gay musicians