CATRINA DAIMON LEE (DOMINA CATRINA LEE)

Any working musician in this country has probably, from time to time, found a lot to complain about.  Crummy, low paying gigs, inattentive audiences, breaking down in the middle of nowhere en-route to a gig, band member drama . . . the list can go on and on.  Seasoned players who have been around for a while take it all as part of the territory . . . you have to or you either quit or go nuts. Even on a limited, semi-professional basis, (which is where most transgender musicians find themselves), we at least get the opportunity to do what we love.  Imagine, then, that you have limited resources, live in a country that often looks down on trans people, and your genre’ of choice is jazz.  By itself, that sentence sounds like a secondary definition for the word “struggle.” Catrina Daimon Lee, who lives in read more...