Mama Duke<\/a>, real name Kori Roy,\u00a0is an out-and-proud lesbian, has been a local hip-hop mainstay since she founded the ATX Social Club, an online group connecting genre-lovers and performers, in 2019. Since then, she has been an official South by Southwest Music Festival artist in 2021 and graced the Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup in 2022. Most recently, Roy appeared in her own TEDx Talk, where she spoke about authenticity in performance, on June 5.<\/p>\nRoy grew up in Palacios, Texas. She was one of the first people in her small-town high school to come out of the closet in 2003. Her mom was a big supporter in her journey, embracing the \u201cBlack, queer, masculine-presenting woman,\u201d Roy says she was becoming.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can do this with all these things stacked against me, that\u2019s one big leap for Austin artists \u2014 the underground, the unknowns, the hidden gems,\u201d Roy told the Statesman in June. \u201cWe don\u2019t get these moments all the time. There are times when the phone don\u2019t ring and nobody\u2019s in your emails. We dream about stuff like this and they call us crazy, but then it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
-Austin American-Statesman music writer Mars\u00a0Salazar contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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