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Big Freedia, New Orleans 'Queen of Bounce,' to star in reality TV show on Fuse network
• NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The singer and dancer known as Big Freedia is taking his hypersexual, booty-shaking moves from the streets of New Orleans to cable television.
• The openly gay performer, whose real name is Freddie Ross, has landed his own reality show on the Fuse network.
• "Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce" will focus on Ross and the New Orleans music scene known as "bounce" -- a fusion of hip-hop and quick, repetitive dance beats with heavy bass.
• Bounce music often includes call-and-response vocals, a nod to early rap and New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian roots music.
• Big Freedia is one of the few bounce artists with international exposure, having toured in the United States, Europe, Australia and other countries.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2013. There are 202 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)
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• On this date:
• In 1776, Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
• In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
• In 1920, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president.
• In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
• In 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a (Continued on page 35)
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