Mado Lamotte

Mado Lamotte, the stage name of Luc Provost, is a Montreal drag queen, author, singer and gay community personality.

Mado Lamotte
Mado Lamotte at "Cabaret Mado"
Born
Luc Provost

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationDrag Queen
Years active1987 – present

Career

Lamotte has been performing for 30years as of summer 2017.[1] She was a longtime MC and DJ of Ciel Mon Mardi at Sky, before opening her own drag cabaret, Cabaret Mado, in Montreal's Gay Village in 2002. She usually only lip-synchs the opening number, preferring to simply DJ (on certain nights) and bring her comedy talents to bear as MC though she occasionally favours her audience by singing live.

Lamotte is also an author, writing a weekly column for the Ici weekly newspaper and a monthly article for the Fugues gay and lesbian newsmagazine. In 2000, she published a collection of her columns entitled Tu vois ben qu'est folle (She's obviously crazy).

She has also released in 1996 a single (Le Rap A Minifée), had a cameo appearance in the 2003 movie Saved by the Belles, and starred in the 2007 play Saving Céline, in which she (credited as Mado Lamotte, not Luc Provost) portrayed a drag queen obsessed by Céline Dion who becomes embroiled in a murder plot against the singer.

In 2010, Mado Lamotte released a full length album on Select. It did very well selling more than 20000 physical & digital albums. Lamotte's 'Full Mado - Le Remix Album' was produced by Montreal's producer/remixer ErekMcQueen (Aka Eric Lajoie), a longtime collaborator on many projects. The album was a 'humourous' mixture of songs from the 70's, 80's & 90's, remixed in different modern styles, with rewritten lyrics 'Lamotte-style'. The album was critically acclaimed & extensively promoted in tv, radio & in prints.

ON August 12, 2017, as a part of Fierté Montréal Canada, Mado celebrates her 30 years of career through a free show at the Parc des faubourgs in Montréal.[2]

Discography
  • 2010 : Full Mado: Le Remix Album : Mado Lamotte : Select Distribution
  • 1996 : Le Rap A Minifée - CD Single : Mado Lamotte : Select Distribution

Filmography
  • 2006 : Cadavre Exquis premiere edition : Mado Lamotte
  • 2003 : Save by the Belles by Ziad Thoumas : Mado Lamotte
  • 2007 : La Reine Mado, documentaire

References
  1. "The rise of Mado Lamotte, queen of Montreal's Gay Village". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  2. Montréal, Fierté. "Les 30 ans de Mado • Fierté Montréal". Fierté Montréal (in French). Retrieved 2017-08-12.
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