Lady Rizo is a comedienne and chanteuse who began performing in New York in 2004. In 2005 she co-created the cult caburlesque show "Lady Rizo and the Assettes" with her close friend and dancer, Amber Star. Coining the word 'caburlesque', the show drew inspiration from theater, vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

, burlesque

Burlesque

Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...

, cabaret and performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

. While the glammed up Lady Rizo sings largely vintage arrangements of 80s and 90s pop songs, the Assettes, made up of both men and women, perform cheeky and sexually charged burlesque acts. She continues to perform with the Assettes but has also gone on to have a solo residency at Joe's Pub entitled "Lady Rizo: Unescorted", that began in the winter of 2009. At the Unescorted show, Lady Rizo continues to bring her signature glamorous diva style to the stage as she further explores her musical influences.

The second single on Moby

Moby

Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

's album, Pale Horses

Pale Horses

"Pale Horses" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released as the second single from his ninth studio album, Wait for Me.The vocals for the song are sung by Moby's friend, singer Amelia Zirin-Brown...

, is sung by Zirin-Brown.

As an actress she has collaborated with Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher in his 2001 production of Cymbeline

Cymbeline

Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance...

; with Adam Rapp in Los Angeles at the Flea Theatre (for which she co-wrote the original score). Zirin-Brown was featured on Yoyo Ma's 2008 grammy nominated album, Songs of Joy & Peace. She also starred in Taylor Mac's 5 hour epic at HERE Arts Center

HERE Arts Center

HERE Arts Center is a New York City based off-off broadway presenting house, founded in 1993, with two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry. From 1993-2009, HERE supported over 12,000 artists and served approximately 950,000 audience members...

, The Lily's Revenge.

External links

• http://www.ladyrizoandtheassettes.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGv6KBX8mo&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMUSj4G-QkM&feature=related