Katey Red
Rapper
Known for her prolific career in the bounce hip-hop music genre. She gained wide renown as being a transgender pioneer, and LGBT spokeswoman.
She began performing as a baton twirler at her high school. She then began performing drag shows around the New Orleans, Louisiana area during the late 1990s.
She released her album Melpomene Block Party via the then-best known bounce label in New Orleans, Take Fo Records. She also appeared as herself during the 1st and 2nd seasons of the HBO series Treme.
She was born and raised in the Melpomene Projects area of New Orleans, Louisiana.
She has collaborated numerous times with fellow bounce rapper Big Freedia.