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Sir Ari Gold

Recording & Performing Artist

"Before there was Adam Lambert or Sam Smith, there was Sir Ari Gold." (LOGO's NewNowNext). Ari Gold is a fourth generation lower east sider, a Billboard Top 10 Recording Artist, Independent Music Award Winner, 3x Outmusic “Visionary Award” recipient by the LGBT Academy of Recording Arts, USA Songwriting Competition Grand Prize Winner, & was knighted by the Imperial Court of New York. Ari’s music has been heard on hit TV shows Scrubs and Cougar Town. He has been featured on VH-1, MTV, BBC, Top Of The Pops, Bravo and LOGO w/ more #1 Videos than any artist. People Magazine says Sir Ari "packs born-this-way swagger," and has been noted by legends Whoopi Goldberg, Boy George and Clive Davis. His music has been featured in Vibe, W, V, New York Magazine, Perez Hilton, Advocate & he's an OUT Magazine OUT100 recipient. Ari has acted in plays by Tony nominated Colman Domingo and in RuPaul's cult film Starrbooty. He's has headlined concerts in Europe, Canada, and in over 40 states including his hometown NYC at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub and Summerstage. As a child vocalist he has sung on over 400 TV and radio jingles, voiced characters for Jem and the Holograms, Cabbage Patch Kids and sang on Diana Ross record Swept Away. He will be performing "POP OUT: The Unsung Musical Memoir of America's First Openly Gay Pop Star" at the Human Rights Theater Festival March 5th at Dixon Place, NYC. His 5th studio album "Soundtrack To Freedom" is OUT NOW under the collective GoldNation.

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