Transgressive Musician Baby Dee Is Now Safe

NPR.org – By Christian Bordal

Day to Day, January 22, 2008 – There have been many wild and wooly characters in the history of rock and pop music, but none wilder or woollier than a transsexual artist named Baby Dee. Her unusual life and career have led to her latest record — Safe Inside the Day.

Dee launched her musical career as a harpist in New York’s Central Park in a bear costume. She says, “I just had this fuzzy picture in my mind of something sort of festive playing a harp. I don’t know, it just sort of came to me.”