In conversation with .. 5!
#PrideIssue - Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 5, 144 pages fashion, art and illustrations! Out 17.07.2020 – featuring in conversation with Pabllo Vittar, Adrien Weiss, Ella Boucht, Davi, Phoebe Bridgers, Mateo Velasquez, Lil Botox. Featuring Crystal from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1, Tom of Finland, Darren Skene, Pablo Solano, Damian Garcia, Sammy Finn Cullis, Jacopo Marchio, Ernst van Hoek and more. On the cover, Chris Flora photographed by Alberto Lanz.
#PrideIssue - Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 5, 144 pages fashion, art and illustrations! Out 17.07.2020 – featuring in conversation with Pabllo Vittar, Adrien Weiss, Ella Boucht, Davi, Phoebe Bridgers, Mateo Velasquez, Lil Botox. Featuring Crystal from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1, Tom of Finland, Darren Skene, Pablo Solano, Damian Garcia, Sammy Finn Cullis, Jacopo Marchio, Ernst van Hoek and more. On the cover, Chris Flora photographed by Alberto Lanz.
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Spilling tea <strong>with</strong><br />
the world’s most<br />
popular drag queen<br />
Pabllo Vittar<br />
<strong>In</strong>terview by Marcel Schlutt @marcel_schlutt<br />
Photos: Special thanks to Sony Music<br />
KALTBLUT spoke <strong>with</strong> Brazilian and global musical sensation Pabllo Vittar, the world’s most popular drag<br />
queen. Currently self-isolating at home in Brazil, the latest COVID-19 hotspot. Pabllo talks to us about her<br />
album 111, Rosalia and she celebrated Pride Month <strong>with</strong> her LGBTQI+ community in Brazil. Welcome the one<br />
and only Pabllo Vittar at KALTBLUT.<br />
Hello from sunny Berlin! And Happy<br />
Pride Month to you! We at KALTBLUT<br />
are big fans of your work. How are<br />
you and what are you doing at this<br />
moment?<br />
Hi! I’m ok, staying at home <strong>with</strong> my<br />
family in Brazil and taking care of each<br />
other during these complicated times!<br />
Congratulations on your Calvin Klein<br />
Pride Campaign. Can you tell us how<br />
this cooperation happened?<br />
This is our third time together, I think!<br />
We did some great content at Coachella<br />
and World Pride together before and<br />
they were all amazing experiences!<br />
How do you celebrate Pride Month?<br />
How important is this month for the<br />
LGBTQI+ community in Brazil?<br />
I am doing a live stream show on the<br />
28th to celebrate <strong>with</strong> my fans, that<br />
is the main project. Pride month is<br />
always important because we are in<br />
the spotlight and we scream louder for<br />
our rights! But one thing is important,<br />
we should not wait for June to do that<br />
and we should celebrate and fight every<br />
single day!<br />
As an outspoken artist and performer that represents the<br />
LGBTQI+ community in your home country, do you often<br />
see yourself using your platform as an activist?<br />
For me, it is my responsibility. If you have a platform in your<br />
hands then you have to use it to make a world a better place<br />
for everybody somehow. So I’m gonna use my voice every<br />
time I can to raise awareness and fight for my community.<br />
You’ve been proclaimed as a “beacon of hope for LGBTQI+<br />
Brazilians” – do you ever feel any pressure <strong>with</strong> this title?<br />
I’ve said this a couple of times to my fans and the people<br />
around me. They are the reason I am here working right now,<br />
they are the ones that give me support and the energy to do<br />
what I do, I couldn’t be myself <strong>with</strong>out them. My fans are my<br />
beacon of hope, it is the opposite! We support each other, we<br />
listen to each other’s issues and we try to overcome all of this<br />
together.<br />
Does this affect your music at all? Or does it encourage you<br />
to be bolder and more vocal than before?<br />
As I said, this is my energy source! If I wasn’t able to share it, I<br />
don’t think I would be able to do it. So yes, it affects me a lot!<br />
Being a political figure must be extremely exhausting.<br />
What do you do to make sure you’re looking after yourself<br />
mentally, physically and spiritually?<br />
I’ve learned to not embrace hate or bad energies around me<br />
and focus on what is good or the growth that a bad situation<br />
can provide me.<br />
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