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By Kaitlyn Hardy<\/h1>\n

Niki Luparelli \u2014 comedian, singer, former Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and overall goddess of glamour \u2014 has graced the colorful corners of Boston\u2019s music and burlesque scene with her talent for tribute.<\/p>\n

Like most musicians, she grew up surrounded and fascinated by music, belting Disney songs and singing in church and school choirs. Luparelli initially went to school to study opera, but changed her focus to jazz, valuing its freedom and vocal texture. \u201cBeauty isn\u2019t just one shade of voice,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

Now, Luparelli hosts annual tribute and burlesque shows, often blending the two arts \u2014 living up to the legacy of classic artists such as Led Zeppelin and David Bowie \u2014 while stripping down. The repertoire of artists she has covered include Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Blondie, Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and Lana Del Rey.  <\/p>\n

On March 2nd, Luparelli performed a Lana Del Rey tribute show at the Boston Science Museum\u2019s Charles Hayden Planetarium, accompanied by an 11-piece band and psychedelic visual effects. Coming up in May, she\u2019ll be hosting her annual Led Zeppelin burlesque show, Strip Zeppelin. <\/p>\n

We had the honor of sitting down with the woman, the myth, the legend, Luparelli herself. <\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for length and clarity<\/em><\/p>\n

Why did you decide to start singing covers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in and around groups where they\u2019re writing all their own songs and their songs are great, but they\u2019re playing these shows and they\u2019re not making money. If you want to make money, like at all, you have to do covers.<\/p>\n

Which artists did you cover first in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started doing cabaret stuff like Patsy Cline. I\u2019ve always kind of done this vintage look thing, so I was doing Peggy Lee type stuff for a while. I did a Bowie cover thing \u2014 the first one was like ten years ago \u2014 and then I started adding burlesque, so it was \u2018David Boobie.\u2019 That still goes on every Black Friday in Somerville. From there I was like, \u2018What else can we do?\u2019 so I\u2019ve tried a bunch of different artists to see what would suit me. One year we did Madonna. I love her, but it\u2019s not really my voice, it was straining for me. But I did Stevie Nicks \u2014 she really suits me.<\/p>\n

How do you choose which artists to cover? <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s usually just whoever I have a musical boner for. Like Bowie \u2014 I\u2019m obsessed with Bowie, he\u2019s my favorite person in the world. And Lana I\u2019ve been wanting to do forever, I just love her.<\/p>\n

Is it daunting to take on artists with such renown and legacy? Do you feel you have a responsibility to uphold the artists and their songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was really worried about that for the Lana show. I know that there\u2019s a lot of stanning and a kind of \u2018How dare you! No one can ever sing this besides her!\u2019 attitude that I was really afraid of. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some of that, but I think that a lot of the people that love her love her for many reasons, and they love the songs and would be happy to hear them played live. I always feel imposter syndrome when I sing the Led Zeppelin show because they\u2019re belting and I\u2019m using basically my Lana voice, switching into head voice. But whatever, I have people stripping, they don\u2019t really seem to notice.<\/p>\n

Which artist\u2019s voice and sound is the most natural for you to perform?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lana, 100%. It sits so comfortably for me. And her poetry too \u2014 I\u2019m like, \u2018Are you in my head? How are you writing this stuff?\u2019 It just speaks to me.<\/p>\n

If you could perform alongside one of the artists you\u2019ve covered, who would that be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always wanted to be David Bowie\u2019s backup singer, but then he died and I felt like Inigo Montoya at the end of \u2018The Princess Bride,\u2019 like I\u2019d been trying to be David Bowie\u2019s backup singer for so long, I don\u2019t even know what to do with my life anymore! Lana should definitely hire me to be her backup singer. And we can party after, I\u2019ll bring my vape, she can bring her vape, we\u2019ll get high by the beach.<\/p>\n

What kind of crowd do your shows draw in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that I get a ton of 18 year olds for some of this older music, but I do get a few. And we\u2019ll get from that age up to like 70s, 80s. We\u2019ll get people that were fans of the music when it first came out and we\u2019ll get people that have just discovered the artist and they love them now.<\/p>\n

Did this demographic shift at all when you were performing Lana, a more contemporary artist, compared to Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin? <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is sad to say, but the audience that was coming to see my Pink Floyd show, \u201cBlonde Side of the Moon,\u2019 they\u2019re like literally dying out, and same with people who were coming to my Patsy Cline shows and stuff. Yeah, there are some cool youth that are into that music, they exist, but not as many. So to have a whole different group come in was so amazing and everybody was so wonderful and nice.<\/p>\n

How did the Lana Del Rey planetarium show come to be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The museum asked me if I would think about doing a Lana show, and I had been thinking about doing a Lana show because I love her. I listen to a lot of Lana, I really connect to her music. I think she\u2019s the best contemporary songwriter out there and I think her songs should be treated like the art that they are. I can\u2019t get over how prolific she is, and she\u2019s got such a great concept of melody.<\/p>\n

So true! What did the preparation for this show entail?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main group \u2014 drums, bass, guitar, keys \u2014 that\u2019s my band that I use for almost everything right now. The cellist I found through Facebook \u2014 I find a lot of my band people through Facebook. I\u2019ll put out there that I\u2019m looking for a violinist or a cellist or something, and usually within an hour there\u2019s all these suggestions for me to pick through. So I had really good luck with that. The violist works with me at Crystal Ballroom \u2014 I produce a lot of shows at the Crystal Ballroom and he\u2019s one of the house managers. The harpist is the daughter of a friend of mine, and the backup singers are my friends that have sung backup with me on-and-off over the years. So it just kind of all came together. Then I had to then get all these parts written out. You can get the sheet music, but they don\u2019t have everything like all those string parts that you hear, it\u2019s just the piano and the chords. So I hired this guy in Italy and he wrote up these gorgeous arrangements for all these songs. If the band wasn\u2019t around and it wasn\u2019t an easy song to play on the piano like \u2018Salvatore,\u2019 I would practice karaoke on YouTube while I was cooking or something. Or I\u2019d sneak into karaoke places where I didn\u2019t know people and put in all the songs from my show.<\/p>\n

Do you have plans to cover any more contemporary artists?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my best friends is drag queen extraordinaire, Kandi Dishe. She produced the Boston Drag Gauntlet and Providence Drag Gauntlet, and she\u2019s been trying to get me to do Taylor, which I also don\u2019t think suits my voice, but she\u2019s like, \u2018You\u2019d be an idiot not to do Taylor Swift.\u2019 I really wanna focus right now on being the best Lana show that I can make happen. I\u2019m not satisfied with the number of songs we did. I\u2019d love to be doing 30 of her songs during a show, so that\u2019s gonna take time.<\/p>\n

So many of your tribute shows have wonderfully cheeky, punny names (David Boobie, Stevie Niki, BlonDDie, Blonde Side of the Moon) \u2014 what are some contenders for a Lana tribute show name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ones we came up with, to keep it simple, \u2018Niki Del Rey and the Million Dollar Band.\u2019 Or I was like, should I call myself \u2018Niki Fucking Rockwell\u2019? Facebook is not going to allow that in my advertising, but I think that\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

*Listing off suggestions from her Facebook* \u201c\u2018The Lizzie Grant Experience,\u2019 \u2018Snow on the Bitches,\u2019 \u2018Video Dames,\u2019 \u2018Lana Del Slay,\u2019 \u2018Cinnamon Girl,\u2019 \u2018Summertime Sadness,\u2019 \u2018Sparkle Jumprope Queen,\u2019 \u2018The May Jailers,\u2019 \u2018The Lanarellis,\u2019 \u2018The Honeymooners,\u2019 and \u2018Smoking Rose.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What are your burlesque shows like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pre pan-Demi Lovato, there was a club called Oberon, which was in Harvard Square and I played for many years. That was our art-friendly, queer-friendly, funky, hip, cool theater. That closed and the Crystal Ballroom opened up. So there we have a band on stage, playing live and the burlesque performers will come out, do their interpretation of the song while performing it live and then bada bang! And then it’s the next act. It\u2019s like old-timey stripping; it’s the tease; it’s like ‘Ooh!’ tongue-in-cheek. You\u2019ll see an act that\u2019s incredibly hilarious, that\u2019ll make you laugh, and then you\u2019ll see one that\u2019s really moving and will bring a little tear to your eye. I find it really empowering. I try to book a wide range of body types and humans to make it really inclusive and fun, and people get into it! They\u2019re screaming, they\u2019re hooting, they\u2019re hollering.<\/p>\n

As a comedian, singer, and performer, you\u2019re obviously an incredibly talented person. Do you have any hidden talents?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not really hidden, but I\u2019m a very good kazoo player \u2014 like pretty excellent. I\u2019m the Blues Traveler of kazoo. I usually have one in my bra. I was in Puerto Rico and we went to this jazz club and it had open jams for everybody. I go up and do a song and there\u2019s a point where, if there was a horn, there\u2019d be a horn solo, so I pulled out my boobie kazoo and did this solo and they were all like, \u2018Holy shit!\u2019<\/p>\n

What exciting performances do you have coming up?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

I have Strip Zeppelin coming up in two months. I just got into \u2018Night of 1,000 Stevies.\u2019 It\u2019s 31 years in the running, it\u2019s in New York City, and 1,000 people dressed up like Stevie Nicks show up and they have performances in front of all these people. So I\u2019m gonna be one of very few singers that they booked to come down. That one, I\u2019m nervous for because it\u2019s 1,000 people and they\u2019re like the biggest Stevie Nicks fans in the entire world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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