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Fancy Hagood on Reclaiming His Path as a Gay Country Artist, After Fleeting Pop Success: ‘I Do It for Queer People to See Themselves in a Story’
Fancy Hagood, a queer country singer-songwriter, talks about reembracing Nashville after a Top 40 hit and tours with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor.
Soon after, he came out as gay, which proved a barrier to his ambitions, in spite of how he showcased his rippling tenor voice and gift for crafting stirring, ardent melodies on stages and in songwriting sessions alike. His has been a sometimes promising, often defeating journey through homophobic rejection, fleeting Top 40 success — complete with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor co-signs and appearances on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and “Dancing With the Stars” — and forging like-minded community in country music, as evidenced by his recent casting in Orville Peck’s cover of “Rhinestone Cowboy” alongside TJ Osborne and Waylon Payne. It seems like a huge paradox that in your pursuit of artistic freedom, you wound up launching your pop career with a promotional campaign that concealed who you were behind the mysterious moniker “Who Is Fancy?” When you reflect back all these years later, what do you make of that?
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