06/02/2024
✿ We have a super exciting party planned for you all this month! Along with our finest selection of records:
We will have special guest offering tarot readings! ✿
✿ It’s Pride so we will be featuring our favorite q***r artists from the past. Pictured here:
Esquerita!!!!
AKA “Eskew Reeder” 😉
Reeder taught himself piano while playing at his mother’s church. He dropped out of high school to become a professional gospel musician. Little Richard saw Esquerita getting off a bus at the station and exclaimed “Oh boy!”. This was the start of a relationship where Little Richard credits him for teaching him his signature wild piano style. Esquerita was known for wearing makeup and two wigs at a time (goals!), did Little Richard also take from his style, or was it symbiotic? Which ever it was it’s clear they were influenced by each other not only musically but stylistically too.