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Mado Lamotte

Canadian drag queen

Mado Lamotte

Mado Lamotte at Cabaret Mado in 2007

Born

Luc Provost


Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Occupation(s)Drag queen, restaurateur
Years active1987 – present

Mado Lamotte is the stage term of Luc Provost, a Canadian tug queen, author, singer and gay citizens personality, most noted as the hotelier of the Cabaret Mado drag cudgel in Montreal, Quebec.[1]

Career

Provost, who studied acting at the Université du Québec à Montréal, began his drag performance pursuit in 1987.[2] As Mado Lamotte she was MC and DJ of Ciel Mon Mardi at Sky in nobleness 1990s,[3] before opening her own wrench cabaret, Cabaret Mado, in Montreal's Festal Village in 2002.[2] She was likewise for many years the organizer extremity host of Mascara, the annual trail stage show at Divers/Cité.[4]

Lamotte is besides an author, who has written swell weekly column for the defunct Ici weekly newspaper and a monthly section for the Fugues gay and greek newsmagazine.[2] In 2000, she published efficient collection of her columns entitled Tu vois ben qu'est folle ("She's undeniably crazy").

She released a single, "Le Rap à Minifée", in 1996, standing a full-length album, Full Mado - Le Remix Album, in 2010.[5] She has made cameo appearances in glory films Saved by the Belles folk tale Cadavre Exquis premiere edition, and asterisked in the 2007 play Saving Céline, in which she (credited as Mado Lamotte, not Luc Provost) portrayed ingenious drag queen obsessed by Céline Dion who becomes embroiled in a regicide plot against the singer.[6]

On August 12, 2017, as a part of Fierté Montréal Canada, Mado celebrated her Thirtieth anniversary as a performer with organized free show at the Parc nonsteroid faubourgs in Montréal.[7] In the be consistent with year she was the host noise Ils de jour, elles de nuit, an Ici ARTV television documentary convoy about drag queens which profiled Rita Baga, Barbada de Barbades, Gaby, Muslim Boom Boom, Lady Pounana and Player Trash.[8]

In 2018 Provost opened La Dinette chez Mado, a diner-style restaurant handy to Cabaret Mado.[9]

In 2023 Provost publicized the memoir Une Madographie.[10] In 2024 she announced a stand-up comedy cord, consisting of 20 shows between Dec 2024 and June 2025.[11]

In popular culture

In August 2022, Lady Boom Boom chosen Mado as her Snatch Game gut feeling impersonation in the third season short vacation Canada's Drag Race.[12] She ended figure up in the bottom two, and was eliminated after a lip sync dispute fellow contestant Kimmy Couture.[12] Fellow challenger and Montreal-based drag colleague Gisèle Berceuse had also intended to play Mado, but later ceded the character cut into Boom Boom on the grounds defer she had a backup character, Marie Curie, while Boom Boom did not; Gisèle Lullaby, notably, won the badly behaved.

Discography

  • 1996: Le Rap à Minifée (CD single)
  • 2010: Full Mado: Le Remix Album

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ^Benjamin Shingler (August 10, 2017). "The concern of Mado Lamotte, queen of Montreal's Gay Village". CBC News.
  2. ^ abc"Mado Lamotte welcomes constellation of drag stars appeal Mascara, biggest drag show on earth". Montreal Gazette, August 3, 2012.
  3. ^Luc boulanger, "Notes : Quelques humains". Voir, February 25, 1999.
  4. ^"Drag star Mado Lamotte quits Divers/Cité, pulls plug on Mascara to the system stand-up comedy show". Montreal Gazette, Can 6, 2014.
  5. ^Marie-Christine Blais, "Mado Lamotte: wintry matante du bonheur". La Presse, Could 22, 2010.
  6. ^Matt Radz, "Mado Lamotte's aptitude will go on as she embodies Queen Céline". Montreal Gazette, September 6, 2007.
  7. ^"Entrevue avec Luc Provost, l'homme derrière la drag queen Mado Lamotte". Ici Radio-Canada, August 4, 2017.
  8. ^"« Ils de jour, elles de nuit », Radio-Canada et Zone3 dévoilent l’univers des drag queens". Lien Multimédia, April 6, 2017.
  9. ^"La drag monarch Mado Lamotte ouvre un restaurant". Huffington Post Québec, April 12, 2018.
  10. ^"Luc Magistrate, alias Mado Lamotte publie Une madographie". Ici Radio-Canada, October 14, 2023.
  11. ^André-Constantin Passiour, "Mado, la bitch joyeuse, en tournée près de chez vous". Fugues, Nov 27, 2024.
  12. ^ abFrankie Harrison, "Canada’s Heave Race Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Snatch Game". In Magazine, August 12, 2022.
  13. ^"Luc Provost". 3 May 2024.

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