Mado Lamotte

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Mado Lamotte
Mado Lamotte by Joe Sioufi.jpg
Mado Lamotte at "Cabaret Mado"
Born
Luc Provost

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationDrag queen, restaurateur
Years active1987 – present

Mado Lamotte is the stage name of Luc Provost, a Canadian drag queen, author, singer and gay community personality, most noted as the owner of the Cabaret Mado drag club in Montreal, Quebec.[1]

Career[]

Provost, who studied theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal, began his drag performance career in 1987.[2] As Mado Lamotte she was MC and DJ of Ciel Mon Mardi at Sky in the 1990s,[3] before opening her own drag cabaret, Cabaret Mado, in Montreal's Gay Village in 2002.[2] She was also for many years the organizer and host of Mascara, the annual drag stage show at Divers/Cité.[4]

Lamotte is also an author, who has written a weekly column for the defunct Ici weekly newspaper and a monthly article for the Fugues gay and lesbian newsmagazine.[2] In 2000, she published a collection of her columns entitled Tu vois ben qu'est folle ("She's obviously crazy").

She released a single, "Le Rap à Minifée", in 1996, and a full length album, Full Mado - Le Remix Album, in 2010.[5] She has made cameo appearances in the films Saved by the Belles and , and starred in the 2007 play Saving Céline, in which she (credited as Mado Lamotte, not Luc Provost) portrayed a drag queen obsessed by Céline Dion who becomes embroiled in a murder plot against the singer.[6]

On August 12, 2017, as a part of Fierté Montréal Canada, Mado celebrated her 30th anniversary as a performer with a free show at the Parc des faubourgs in Montréal.[7] In the same year she was the host of Ils de jour, elles de nuit, an Ici ARTV television documentary series about drag queens which profiled Rita Baga, Barbada de Barbades, Gaby, Lady Boom Boom, Lady Pounana and Tracy Trash.[8]

In 2018 Provost opened La Dinette chez Mado, a diner-style restaurant adjacent to Cabaret Mado.[9]

Discography[]

  • 1996: Le Rap à Minifée (CD single)
  • 2010: Full Mado: Le Remix Album

Filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Benjamin Shingler (August 10, 2017). "The rise of Mado Lamotte, queen of Montreal's Gay Village". CBC News.
  2. ^ a b c "Mado Lamotte welcomes constellation of drag stars to Mascara, biggest drag show on earth". Montreal Gazette, August 3, 2012.
  3. ^ Luc boulanger, "Notes : Quelques humains". Voir, February 25, 1999.
  4. ^ "Drag star Mado Lamotte quits Divers/Cité, pulls plug on Mascara to launch stand-up comedy show". Montreal Gazette, May 6, 2014.
  5. ^ Marie-Christine Blais, "Mado Lamotte: la matante du bonheur". La Presse, May 22, 2010.
  6. ^ Matt Radz, "Mado Lamotte's art will go on as she embodies Queen Céline". Montreal Gazette, September 6, 2007.
  7. ^ "Entrevue avec Luc Provost, l'homme derrière la drag queen Mado Lamotte". Ici Radio-Canada, August 4, 2017.
  8. ^ "« Ils de jour, elles de nuit », Radio-Canada et Zone3 dévoilent l’univers des drag queens". Lien Multimédia, April 6, 2017.
  9. ^ "La drag queen Mado Lamotte ouvre un restaurant". Huffington Post Québec, April 12, 2018.

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