Times-Standard.com – Monica Topping For the Times-Standard
The idea of the Athens Boys Choir was a bit of a joke in the beginning. Two transsexual men, who had spent some time in the spoken word scene in Athens, Ga., got together and decided to make an album of spoken word and hip-hop.
The name of the group came from the diverse backgrounds of Rocket, who grew up Catholic, and Harvey Katz, who grew up Jewish, and “some sort of religious context felt really good to us,” says Katz, now the sole member of the “choir.” “Athens Boys Choir has this sort of gay innuendo in itself, and it came to us one day and we just rolled with it.”