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“Caleb De Casper is glamour horror.
Mixing performance art with high energy piano and a powerful voice, this act will haunt your dreams for weeks. Think Alice Cooper, Gaga, and Elton John if he joined the dark side. Dramatic, brooding, entertaining, and a spectacle of costuming and makeup to behold!”- NPR Music
“A champion of self-expression and empowerment,
North Carolinian-turned-Austinite Caleb de Casper uses his platform for the betterment of himself and audiences. As a classically-trained pianist and vocalist, the dark synth-pop performer fuses lavish hooks and tantalizing vocalizations. Throughout this year’s debut LP Femme Boy, the singer’s sorrows and woes coexist with glamorously risqué callouts and odes. In a city on rocky footing with its own “keeping it weird” status, the musician banks on his uniqueness to drive creativity. Still sporting influence from his horror-glam past, Casper stalks across stages with the grace and charisma of a budding star, embodying the beauty of not fitting in. – Alyssa Quiles, Austin Chronicle
“Authenticity Through Art”
Caleb de Casper comes to Houston for the Legendary Art Car Ball.
When Caleb De Casper performs at the Legendary Art Car Ball later this month, audiences can “expect a little bit of fire.” De Casper’s show-stopping feats might be flashy, but they’re grounded in authenticity. Musically inclined from an early age, the performer has found a voice in music and uses his art as a way to be true to himself while advocating for the LGBTQ community.
https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/04/authenticity-through-art/
Caleb De Casper Battles Texas Anti-Drag Legislators
Marc Felion, Feast of fun podcast Mar 28, 2023
As politicians attempt to pass anti-trans and anti-drag laws, it’s important to show up, speak out and voice your opposition for the public record.
Thankfully, rock ‘n roll might save the day!
Joining us is queer musician Caleb DeCasper who showed up at the Texas state capitol to let legislators know that an intended ban on drag could have widespread negative effects on the whole music industry.
https://feastoffun.com/podcast/2023/03/28/caleb-de-casper-battles-texas-anti-drag-legislators/
SXSWHIRLWIND
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De Casper strutted out in sneaker heels, a sparkler bra, and body hair, and delivered his usually synth-pop tunes in a harder rock style with a reminder that SXSW underpays artists and that the dragged out performance may be “illegal next year.”
Caleb De Casper
Artist of the Month - June, 2022
“Caleb De Casper’s debut album, Femme Boy, is a heat-seeking missile aimed at your underpants. And like any good weapon of mass libido, it has the power to make you both uncomfortable and aroused, often at the same time. Unabashedly sexual and unapologetically queer, De Casper struts through 12 songs ranging from glammed up synth-pop in “Danny You’re a F*ckboy” to gloomy ballads like “Never Home,” lamenting the real-world pain and alienation that comes with not fitting in. All delivered with an unflinching, sometimes shocking honesty, that can make even the proudest libertine blush.”—Artist of the Month Feature, KUTX 98.9, June 2022
https://kutx.org/artist-of-the-month/caleb-de-casper/
Austin Pride: Caleb De Casper
“De Casper eventually moved to Austin, where he and his ever-present stilettos have made long strides up the ladder of Austin’s music scene, lifting-up and creating space for other up-and-coming queer Austin musicians in his wake. A classically trained pianist and vocalist, Caleb blends those talents singularly with an air of theater that translates to his studio recordings, but with a dimension that can only be realized through his live performances, that braid camp and glam rock passion with jazz lounge sophistication and touch of elegance.”— Taylor Wallace, KUTX 98.9, June 2022
My KUTX: Caleb De Casper
“De Casper has become a local music fixture, thanks to his blend of electro-pop and “horror glam” aesthetic onstage. April 21 this year was dubbed Caleb De Casper Day to mark the release of his album Femme Boy.” — Art Levy, KUTX 98.9, June 2022
Austin City Council Member Founds Y'all Means All Day for LGBTQ Rights
Austin City Council member José “Chito” Vela recently posted a photo on Twitter with Caleb De Casper, a queer artist and musician after he played during a City Council meeting. The photo was met with some hostility online, receiving a number of homophobic and transphobic responses from Twitter users and conservative media personalities alike.
In response, Vela declared the day of the next council meeting, May 5, to be “Y’all Means All Day.” In celebration of Texas’ rich LGBTQ+ history, members of the local LGBTQ+ community in Austin gathered in solidarity.—Sara Tardiff, Teen Vogue, May 2022.
GLORIOUSLY GLAMOROUS: CALEB DE CASPER
“I went home, and I said, “That’s it. Enough is enough. I have the infrastructure in place to do what I want to do, and I’m going to do it.” I sat down at the piano that night, I was still drunk, and I immediately wrote “Do It Baby,” which is about just finally doing it instead of talking and thinking about it because nobody’s going to support you until it’s done and made. They’re not going to get it, so just do it. Then the pandemic happens, and everybody starts to realize that things aren’t right with the world. Queer musicians and musicians of color start to speak up and say, hey, this happens.”—QA by Denny Paterson, OutFront Magazine, April 2022
https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/gloriously-glamorous-caleb-de-casper/
REVIEW: CALEB DE CASPER (FEMME BOY) 3.5 STARS
“While the compositions and, even more so, variant singing voices arrive in diverse expressions, Casper's lane as an entertainer's already clear: an alternative diva crowds want to rally behind.”—Kevin Curtin, The Austin Chronicle 3.5* Femme Boy Review, March 2022.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2022-03-11/review-caleb-de-casper/
Caleb De Casper, Our Favorite Xenomorph Femme Boy
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
When queer rebel musician Caleb De Casper got an honorary day celebrating his musical contribution to Austin Texas, the Live Music Captial of the World, all hell broke loose on Twitter. After all, it’s Elon Musk’s dumpster fire now.
Right wingers went berserk seeing Caleb De Casper decked out in a golden bustier with long hair and makeup. They are accusing him of being a witch, calling him anti-semetic slurs and even worse: they say his lip stick color didn’t match his dress! — Fausto Férnos and Marc Felion, Feast of Fun, April 2022
QMUNNITY: FEMME BOY SPRING
Caleb De Casper gets his own day declared at City Hall
A powerful diva of desire and dance-pop, queer musician Caleb De Casper provides the perfect soundtrack for self-empowerment and swinging those sexy hips around at the discotheque. Today, April 21, the city of Austin puts the siren's spirit into the history books by declaring Caleb De Casper Day at City Hall…"Culture is one of the most important things we have in a society," De Casper says, "and I'm honored that the people of the city I moved to in order to start a new life want to memorialize me in theirs."—Caleb De Casper, written by James Scott The Austin Chronicle, April 2022.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2022-04-22/qmmunity-femme-boy-spring/
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Here's a Song I Wrote
Meeting Caleb De Casper was an amazing experience for us at Here's a Song I Wrote. The moment he started playing, we were hooked. Then he sang. Wow.— Here’s a Song I Wrote, May 2022
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-12-caleb-de-casper/id1615429607?i=1000560814306
"I know who I am and I know what I'm about" WCL interviews Caleb De Casper Within City Limits, July 2021
“Jaw-dropping one to watch...”—Raoul Hernandez, Austin Chronicle”
“Caleb De Casper has always known what he’s wanted to do and who he was destined to be. “Since conception,” he notes coyly, behind sharp shades, under a tall wig, and clad in a corset, fishnets, and inches of heels, all black. Horror Glam Rock has been his trade for many years, lessening the shock value without compromising any of the edge. A classically trained pianist, his live sets and studio sound are embellished with this flourishing texture, blended with traditional rock instrumentation to conjure an energy and space that’s as dynamic as it is theatrical.”
“Caleb de Casper is Austin’s reigning king of camp and kink, and his spectacularly inventive residency at Cheer Up Charlies was a high water mark of 2017. On the standout disco-glam track “Good Boy,” de Casper teases out the naughtiest elements of Abba and stitches them into a delirious, pulsing theatri-goth dance experience. He can be your good boy, you make him a bad boy, and the whole flirtatious dynamic is like a soundtrack to the sort of playful, indulgent party you’ve always wanted to be invited to. —Kayleigh Hughes, OVRLD.COM”
“2018 has been a whirlwind year for Austin’s goth glamour boy. In May, he released the music video for his single “Good Boy,” in addition to doing interviews and performing on KVRX and Texas State University’s Studio C Session on KTSW this November...”
“The “About” section of Caleb De Casper’s Bandcamp page references performance art, and perhaps that designation is fitting. Indeed, his live shows feel less like traditional concerts and more like spectacular rock n’ roll musicals. De Casper often takes the stage bedecked in “glamour horror” costuming—torn fishnets, high heels, zany wigs etc.—and sashays his way through catchy punk rock songs that could comprise the soundtrack to Rocky Horror 2. His voice is brooding and deep, a wolfish baritone that deftly elevates the entire project from entertaining camp to a full-blown spectacle. “I Am Jane,” a single posted online, finds De Casper honing feminine strength over a raucous bed of power chords and church organ. It’s a fun but also knowing and clever song thanks to De Casper’s lyrical wit. Caleb De Casper is inarguably one of Austin’s most enjoyable acts, and we anticipate great things to come. —Ryan Ricks, DO512”
“Come to De Casper’s entry video for the masterful mini-documentary before he gets on stage; stay for his performance of “Good Boy,” a sultry disco romp about a garçon fatale. De Casper vamps on that stage sure-footed and effervescent, belying his prior confessional with camp and glitz like the icons before him. — Joshua Bote, NPR”
“...[De] Casper enjoys the frills and fishnets of gender-f*cking while onstage adorned with “horror glam” makeup – a custom that began with his music career in North Carolina. Of the only state that’s successfully passed a bathroom bill, [De] Casper says: “There’s a real hatred for people who deviate from gender norms – there, the punkest thing that you can do is to be a boy singing songs about boys while wearing fishnets and evening gowns.” Even in Austin, [De] Casper’s work promises something new and unrestrained...” — Sarah Marloff, The Austin Chronicle”