Artist Appreciation for Hispanic heritage month:
Teri Gender Bender
Fantastic voice, incredible mind and beautiful
Written by Jesus Figueroa
Le Butcherettes lead singer Teri Gender Bender has a style of her own which can be seen fantastically in the way she presents herself.
The way she presents the album "A Raw Youth" and her reasoning behind it comes from much consideration of what the world is going through, what the youth is going through and as a strange coincidence Fyodor Dostoevksi's book "The Raw Youth."
Bender has an incredible knowledge and appreciation for music and literature, she is well spoken in her answers.
Her responses caught my eye and I was taken by them. There's so much depth Bender provides in her answers and she is able to verbalized well and in an intellectual manner the purpose and thought that went into the album.
As a fan of punk and raw emotion in music, the album took me by surprise and has quickly jumped to one of my favorite albums of all time.
The mixture of purpose and style combine to give the powerful vocals and magnificent instrumentals a meaningful beauty.
Artist Appreciation for Halloween:
Scarlet Checkers
Contortionist clown with passion for performing
The highly motivated contortionist clown Scarlet Checkers finds that happiness has come in the form of showing off her unique skills and passion.
Checkers leaves behind her old life and journeys thousands of miles to invest her time in performing a bizarre contortionist act in Southern California.
The blood she bleeds, when the venue allows, for her audience is real and the shock factor in her performance is indescribable. She is a rare talent with a condition which gives her a limit of time for performing.
Currently, Checkers works as part of Dark Harbor's "Freaks and Oddities Lounge" at the sideshow stage for the Halloween season.
Checkers is highly motivated to continue showing off her talent and unique personality for as long as she is able to.
More to come on these two magnificent artist from different medias in the next issue of Thisfunktional Magazine.
