Chi Chi Valenti
Chi Chi Valenti | |
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| Born | Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Pen name | "The Empress" |
| Occupation | Journalist, nightlife producer, performance artist |
| Nationality | American |
| Website | |
| mothernyc | |
Chi Chi Valenti is an American journalist, nightlife producer, and performance artist.[1][2][3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Writing for Details and The Village Voice, Valenti became one of the first journalists to chronicle 1980s Ball culture in the Bronx.[4] In 1991, Valenti and her husband Johnny Dynell created "Night of 1000 Stevies," an annual Stevie Nicks tribute which has continued for more than thirty years and featured performances by Debbie Harry, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Justin Bond, Sherry Vine, Taylor Mac, and Basil Twist.[5][6][7][8][9] From 1996 to 2000, Valenti co-owned Mother, a nightclub which hosted parties such as Jackie 60 and Click + Drag, and would later be the subject of the 2011 Blondie song, "Mother".[10] Since 2002, Valenti has produced the Howl Festival, named after the Allen Ginsberg poem and performed annually in Tompkins Square Park.[11][12]
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External links
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- Living people
- Performance art in New York City
- Artists from New York City
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women
- 20th-century American women writers
- The Village Voice people
- Artists from Manhattan
- American women journalists
- Nightclub owners
- American women performance artists
- Journalists from New York City