WAYNE COUNTY
Jayne County (born Wayne Rogers; 1947) is an American performer, musician and actress whose career has spanned several decades. Formerly known as Wayne County, she went on to be rock’s first transsexual singer. Though she has never been a commercial success, she has been an influence on a number of musicians including David Bowie, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Pete Burns, and Lou Reed. She is known for her outrageous stage antics and her songs “Are You Man Enough To Be A Woman”, “F--k Off”, “Stuck On You”, and “Night Time”. County was previously an actress at Andy Warhol’s The Factory. (More from Wikipedia)
Wendy Carlos is not the only transsexual musician that I know of; one of the wildest of the first-wave punk rock stars of the 1970’s, Wayne County was going by the name Jayne County by 1980. I have a copy of her 1993 album called Goddess of Wet Dreams; and as might be imagined by the album title, it is every bit as extreme as the 1970’s work.
(March 2012)
