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John Andrew Quale is an American singer, songwriter, and performer best known by the stage name and persona of Prince Poppycock. Quale, who specializes in musical theater and opera, describes Prince Poppycock on his website as a "roguish operatic dandy."〔(Prince Poppycock bio page for John Andrew Quale )〕〔Ann Magnuson, ''Paper'', February 2007.〕〔Roy Rogers Oldenkamp, "WeHo's Rise Up & Shout Debuts", ''WeHo News'', August 9, 2007.〕 Poppycock came to national attention in 2010 when he competed on the fifth season of ''America's Got Talent''.〔 On September 15, 2010, he was voted fourth place in the final four. ==Early life and career== Quale was raised on a horse farm in Great Falls, Virginia.〔 As a child, he sang "incessantly" and was a member of several children's choirs. His first public performance was at age 11 at Kennedy Center in the Children's Choir of the Washington National Opera.〔Victoria George, "Cast/Creative biographies", ''The Ugly Beast'', New York Theatre Festival, 2004-2010 National Music Theater Network, Inc.〕 In his teenage years, Quale developed a love for writing music and became "enamored" with David Bowie, Depeche Mode, opera, madrigals, Gregorian chant, the Smiths and Gilbert and Sullivan. He also began recording his own music.〔 While in high school, he spent several summers at Interlochen Arts Camp, a competitive performing arts program of the Interlochen Center for the Arts.〔〔 His "flair for theater and arts made his teen years particularly tough," and bullying led him to drop out of high school in his junior year. Quale has since earned a GED.〔 Quale performed and toured with musicals and choirs throughout high school and college.〔 In December 2001, Quale joined Chicago synth-pop band Endora as lead singer and songwriter.〔〔〔Endora band history, (Endora's official site Endpop.com )〕 Quale moved to Los Angeles around 2005 and studied musical theatre at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.〔 Quale wrote and released a solo album, ''Worldview'',〔〔Available online〕 and was one of several young gay performing artists profiled in Brian Gleason's documentary ''Rise Up and Shout!''.〔〔"Rise Up & Shout! film preview", (Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival ), The Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation, October 2008.〕 Quale played the role of Jesus in the musical ''The Beastly Bombing'', which won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Musical and enjoyed two short runs Off Broadway in NYC.〔〔 He also performed and entertained at ''La Belle Epoque'', with Ann Magnuson at Redcat,〔Lenora Claire, "19: Prince Poppycock: Randy Dandy", ''Frontierss "Hot 25 of 2007".〕 and has opened for The Dresden Dolls,〔 Club Dandy, Wig Out, Dirty Deeds〔 and Jer Ber Jones.〔 Quale has studied voice for several years with Derek Graydon.〔 Additionally, Quale has been collaborating with Kristian Hoffman, songwriter for The Mumps and Klaus Nomi, on a rock album entitled ''The Solipsist's Soliloquy''.〔 Recently, John showed his support for the Trevor Project, a nationwide non-profit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, through his "It Gets Better" video. Quale developed the Prince Poppycock character, an opera singer who performs in the elaborate dress of a baroque dandy, in 2006 so he could perform in a Los Angeles nightclub show.〔〔Maria Sciullo, ("Richland singer in close race on 'Talent'" ), ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', September 08, 2010.〕 Quale was studying opera and had completed learning the Figaro aria "Largo al factotum" ("Make way for the factotum") from ''The Barber of Seville''. A friend asked Quale to perform but stipulated he must wear a wig; he decided to perform as a "powdered-wigged baroque dandy, and highlight how the song was about being a fabulous hairdresser".〔 Poppycock "is my mask," says Quale in ''People Magazine''. "Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth, in the style of Commedia dell'arte."〔Cynthia Wang and Jessica Herndon, ("Secrets of 'America's Got Talent' top 10" ), ''People'', September 7, 2010.〕 The ''New York Post'' noted Poppycock embodies the sensibility of "humor, irony and sarcasm".〔Deborah Starr Seibel, "‘Talent’ scare: The night the buzzers went dead backstage", ''New York Post'', August 22, 2010.〕 He wears elaborate costuming and "dresses as if he stepped out of a French Baroque painting (pantaloons, powdered wig and pasty makeup)."〔 The ''New York Post'' called him "a towering, powder-faced concoction of glam-rock, synth-pop and light opera wrapped up in flamboyant period costumes."〔Sean Daly, ("The battle of the high Cs: 'Talent's' Jackie hunts Quale" ), ''The New York Post'', September 4, 2010.〕 His face is matted with whiteface (or white clown) a symbol of the highest status in the clown hierarchy and the oldest of modern clown archetypes. At first his mother was concerned for her openly gay son's new outrageous persona but now she "couldn't be more pleased".〔 On Halloween, October 31, 2010, Prince Poppycock was crowned the honorary Mayor of West Hollywood for the Creative City's annual Halloween Carnaval.〔("Prince Poppycock's 'Whirlwind' Rise to Fame Leads to This: Mayor of Halloween" ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prince Poppycock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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