Bobby Blue Artist Bio

Bobby Blue is an explosive queer Singer Songwriter performer inspired by his Costa Rican and American heritages. He plays a unique fusion of original songs, Americana, and Latin Folk. Bobby echos the sounds of Pokey LaFarge, Orville Peck, KD Lang and matches the stage presence of Freddie Mercury. Bobby sings as high as Patsy Cline and as powerfully as Sinead O’Connor.

Pumping Norteño bass scored Bobby Blues’ childhood soundtrack in the small motor town of Bedford, Indiana. An energetic culture-clash forged his home, his factory-worker father, a good ole’ boy came from the Indiana backwoods. Bobbys mother came from a village in Costa Rica. She encouraged his spirit, music, and imagination. Once, they were coloring and he didn’t have a green crayon for the trees. “The trees can be any color you want,” she told him. That’s been his philosophy ever since.

Growing older, Bobby Blues’ imagination and independence could make for a hard time. His ever-changing, crazy hair and Madonna-wannabe ensembles were a bit much for Bedford. Bullied and picked on, a teacher once even threatened to beat out his sissiness out with his fists, but music kept him going. From age four, he sang, and composed for recitals, and always had solo parts in choirs. He prayed for Madonna to rescue him. She never showed so he got the hell out of Bedford.

Once old enough, Bobby went to live with his best friend in Seattle where he started his own band as well as lending his vocals to a duo in London called Swayzak for their electronic recordings. Bobby felt he had gone as far as he could in Seattle, so he packed his bags and moved to NYC. Bobby paid a short visit to his hometown, gave a kiss to mom and dad, got on a bus in front of the local feed & seed store in Bedford, IN and got off at the NYC Port Authority station.

Bobby Blue immediately started performing in NYC at open mics and in singing competitions with his guitar. His fun stage presence and big voice made him known as a powerful performer. Audiences were deafeningly excited but his countertenor high voice threw off music industry professionals. Bobby was deemed “not All American” because they thought he was too gay and that his voice was freakish. He kept singing but there were definitely times that he wanted to quit music because he kept getting snubbed. Fortunately the performer inside of him kept forcing him to the stage. Bobbys first album, a folky-electro album held his first releases. Many DJs discovered his originals and turned several of them into dance remixes. In A Song was on the Billboard Dance Chart for 15 weeks. This was very exciting but Dance music is not the style of music that Bobby creates so once he became insistent on releasing his acoustic songs the dance community didn’t follow, and left his second album, Getting High, looking for a new audience.

Bobby Blue says, as a singer it’s hard to choose a genre because when you can sing any style you want to sing everything. While settling into NYC he dived into his mothers Latin music and his fathers old Country music, as well as writing original songs. Bobby had so much fun singing these lovely folk melodies that he knew that he had found his direction in music. Finding a band was always a challenge because bands he auditioned for thought that if the lead singer was gay that the band would be seen as a “gay band” so instead of waiting for the world to open its mind Bobby worked hard selling vintage furniture at his day job which helped to fund a set of musicians-for-hire.

Bobby Blue is a powerhouse entertainer. His shows have a warmth about them that keeps the audience completely quiet and listening to his every peep. Their faces are lit with smiles, tears, and laughter and a lot of times they sing together. Bobbys’ show is an exciting party with a constant message to stand together. His dream is to sell out stadiums, but he’s had the opportunity of slaying audiences at Joes Pub, The Knitting Factory, and at several festivals around the country. Bobby says that he appreciates each and every applause that he has ever gotten. Fans say such beautiful things. His favorite is when a woman approached him with tears in her eyes, and said that he had made her day! To Bobby those moments are golden. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.