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Jul 2020
53m 4s

Billy Porter

Apple Music
About this episode
In his powerful interview with Zane Lowe, the theater performer, singer, and actor opens up about finding his voice at a young age, coping with and overcoming trauma, and how playing Belize in Tony Kushner’s off-Broadway revival of Angels in America changed his life. 
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