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Gary Hall, also known as Shequida Hall or mononymously as Shequida, is a Jamaican-American classically trained opera singer, songwriter, playwright, and drag artist.
He attended Juilliard, where he studied with noted bass-baritone Simon Estes.
As the female character Shequida, he has been the USA Network's spokesperson for Latin America. From 1997 to 1998 he played Wendi Mercury on the daytime television show ''
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Gary Hall, also known as Shequida Hall or mononymously as Shequida, is a Jamaican-American classically trained opera singer, songwriter, playwright, and drag artist.
He attended Juilliard, where he studied with noted bass-baritone Simon Estes.
As the female character Shequida, he has been the USA Network's spokesperson for Latin America. From 1997 to 1998 he played Wendi Mercury on the daytime television show ''One Life to Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes ...
''. He starred in Daron Hagen's '' Vera of Las Vegas'' for its world premier in 2003.
His off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
show, ''Opera for Dummies'', garnered a positive review in '' The Boston Phoenix'', and was nominated for a GLAAD
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Media Award.
In 2008, Shequida appeared on the TV reality competition America's Got Talent
''America's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated as ''AGT'') is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell. The program is produced by Fremantle (as well as distribut ...
, getting into the Top 40 for the third season, but was eliminated, later saying in an interview that the experience "was very weird."
Shequida headlined in summer shows in Cherry Grove on Long Island
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in 2013 and 2014.
See also
*LGBT culture in New York City
New York City is home to one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most power ...
* List of LGBT people from New York City
New York City is home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' writes that the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most ...
References
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*Official website
American dance musicians American male pop singers America's Got Talent contestants African-American drag queens American gay musicians African-American LGBT people Jamaican gay men Living people Nightlife in New York City Singers from New York City Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American LGBT people 21st-century Jamaican LGBT people {{US-entertainer-stub