INTERVIEW – Rozette’s Fallback Plan: Calgary Singer On The Love of the LGBTQ Community And What Alberta Means To Her

When talking to Calgary’s Rozette, whose currently creating YouTube "Quarantunes" and her latest single "Bite," one of the topics that she is passionate about is the LGBTQ community. As Jenn Beaupre, she performed for Jay Brannan in 2010.

"My life is lit on fire by my LGBTQ+ people, it is more colorful and louder and humorous. It almost makes me emotional. A friend of mine got me to open for Jay Brannon about 10 years ago and I hadn't heard of him. I listened to his song Housewife and I was like, this is so good. I love the words. I love his voice. I love his face. I just think he's the coolest. I opened for him in Calgary and Edmonton and the response I got from those crowds was not parallel to anything I had experienced before. I just realized like these kinds of are my people, not exclusively obviously, but they get me. I don't know how or why that works. I've always had a large contingency of LGBTQ friends in my life, I just love them so much," she said.

"When it comes to my music, they really show the love back. I've never signed so many really chiseled abs in my life as that night with the Sharpie because they're just so passionate and...