Out Of The Box

Today Joey chats to drag artist Le Gateau Chocolat. Gateau was raised in the bustling seaside Nigerian city of Lagos, in a conservative Pentecostal family – he grew up suppressing his identity in an environment where being gay was forbidden. At 16 he moved to the UK to attend boarding school, which became a law degree. But soon he shook of the traditional route and, almost by accident, he became a drag-inflected diva with a soaring operatic baritone that he lends to the compositions of everyone from Whitney to Guiseppi Verdi.