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About.... Straight out of a Kansas City Trailer Park comes a true, American original: Wendy Ho. Crass, sexy, soulful, and ballsy, she is the definitive sexually liberated musical comedienne. Whether she’s spitting her own lyrical miracles, or jacking someone else’s song into her own poetic piece of perfection, Ho owns it. Her brash and undeniable musicality has drawn comparisons from Bette Midler to 2Pac. Equal parts dirty feminist rapper, soul singer, and musical parodist, Ho sounds like Lil’ Kim and Aretha eatin’ Peaches on a Lonely Island. Ho was born in Toledo, OH and raised in Kansas City, KS by her high school sweetheart parents. A born misfit, she was drawn to all things urban while growing up surrounded by white trash, and was kicked out of high school choir for sounding “too black.” This fascination with the street moved her ass to New York City and straight up to Harlem in the summer of 2002. When life got hard, Ho turned to drugging, dealing, and running hustle to keep her afloat during the lean times. Stealing ladies’ handbags from coat rooms at parties inspired her track “Bitch, I Stole Yo Purse!,” which became the #1 Funniest Video of 2008 on the MTV/LOGO Network, and was spoofed on FX’s Nip/Tuck with Jennifer Coolidge playing their version of Wendy Ho. Amidst the accolades for her sexy and stoopit comedy, what sets her apart from other musical comics is her undeniable vocal chops. Wendy Ho can sing. Her combination of comedy and real musical talent caught the attention of producer Craig Levy, aka Little Pioneer, in the Fall of 2004. Their collaboration birthed The Gospel According to Ho in the spring of 2007 and delivered 10 tracks including the torch song “Fuck Me,” “Cocaine,” recounting her former drug-addiction, and “The AIDS Gamble,” a PSA warning of the dangers of flossing. This irreverence and balls-out femininity struck a special chord with the gay community, inspiring drag queens around the world to perform her songs and celebrate Ho. With a rainbow hurricane of gay support behind her, Wendy Ho owned 2009, performing across North America and abroad, with venues in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Montreal, Miami, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, and her hometown of Kansas City, as well as an Atlantis gay cruise to Rome, Greece, and Egypt. She also appeared on Showtime’s series I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single, where she met the show’s director of photography Stas Tagios, who became her fiancé after he popped the question on the cruise. Love led to relocation, with Wendy moving westward to Los Angeles, where she currently performs regularly at Hamburger Mary’s West Hollywood in The Wendy Ho “Ho Show” and continues to tour across the country. And the music don’t stop. Working again with Little Pioneer, Ho recently dropped Number Two, a free download mixtape packed with fresh song jacks, freestyles, mashups and remixes, including the dirty disco anthem “Poop Noodle.” The “Poop Noodle” video, meanwhile, is delighting and disgusting thousands of viewers daily on YouTube. Loaded with eleven original songs (no samples this time around),, Ho’s new full-length album Yes, I’m a Ho! has recently been released to satisfied disciphos. Featuring edgy, musically and thematically diverse tracks like “I Can’t Afford It (I’m Gonna Have to Abort It)” and “Gurl, Putcho Tampon In,” Yes, I’m a Ho! is a soon-to-be-notorious classic hip-hop/r&b record combining tongue-in-cheek delivery with in-your-face prophecy. Off the leash in the studio just as much as she is on stage, Ho consistently creates outrageously raunchy, entertaining and thought-provoking experience with songs that push buttons and masterfully jump genre lines. Ho is an artist. Ho is a state of mind. Ho redefines women in music with true liberation. She is funny and sexy, never sacrificing one for the other. A pretty bitch, a witty feminist, a self-possessed, self-assured mashup of street and trash who makes you laugh while she makes you think. The responses she evokes from audiences are as diverse as her roots, but at the core there is no question about who she is. Wendy is all woman. All Ho.

Contact

Booking:

Martina Wand Management

martinawand@gmail.com


Online Publicity Contact

wendyhopr@gmail.com


General inquiries:

wendytheho@gmail.com

Press Quotes: “She’s actually hilarious, and can really sing.” -John Bilow, San Diego RAGE Magazine (March 8, 2011) “Her act, which features equal parts singing and comedy, highlights the best of both talents and combines her past experiences into a hilariously honest performance.” Abby Walker, San Diego LGBT WEEKLY (March 3, 2011) “Extreme Internet sensation Wendy Jo Smith (aka Wendy Ho) has blond hair, a big ol' ass and the voice of a soul singer. Her range and vocal strength are clearly apparent when she sings.” -Berry Anderson Kansas City Pitch Music (March 2, 2011) "Bawdy and bodacious Wendy Ho! Once you've heard her lyrics and seen her delivery, you'll know why she is in demand all over the country!" Donna Sachet, Bay Area Reporter (Feb 03, 2011) "Wendyho.net is filled to the brim with her slutting up the camera in dirty ass videos featuring even filthier lyrics. This Ho is stupid." Blake Jacobs, The Hollywood WOW Report (Feb 02, 2011) "Equal parts skilled singer, comedic genius, white rapper and female drag queen, gays weren’t the only ones taking note! F/X Network series Nip/Tuck even hired actress Jennifer Coolidge to parody Ho during an episode!" Paul E. Pratt, San Francisco Bay Times (Oct 21, 2010) "Not everyone can handle a ho, especially one as provocative and straight-up street as Wendy Jo Smith, aka Wendy Ho. Part comedian, part singer/actress, part white rapper, this edgy performer is a self-proclaimed "female drag queen" who defies professional definition, breaking - and making - the rules as she goes along. " by M. M. Adjarian, The Edge- Boston (Aug 17, 2010) "I know all about Wendy Ho. Wendy Ho’s album is called The Gospel According to Ho, and the album in the Hot Coco video was called The Gospel According to Coco, so they had every intention of acknowledging Wendy Ho. They showed me the Wendy Ho video before we did it and said, “Do a funny version of this.” I was like, “I’m not going to be cooler than Wendy Ho, that’s for sure.” Wendy Ho is about as cool as it gets. I’d never seen anything like her.” --Jennifer Coolidge on playing Wendy Ho spoof character Hot Coco - Brandon Voss, The Advocate.Com (Mar 29, 2010) http://www.ragemonthly.comhttp://www.ragemonthly.comhttp://lgbtweekly.com/2011/03/03/wendy-ho-singing-comedienne-with-the-best-of-both-talents/http://wendyho.net/http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2011/03/kcks_wendy_ho_to_deliver_hood.phphttp://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=onthetown&article=169http://worldofwonder.net/2011/02/02/Wendy_s_HOWN_Show_/http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=13885http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=theatre&sc2=&sc3=&id=109229http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=109159shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9

(This is not a Wendy Ho video, but its strangely familiar!?)

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