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Sonne Teal (13 July 1928, Canada[1] – 5 March 1966, Mount Fuji, Japan[1]) was an American actress, dancer, singer and female impersonator.
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Sonne was born Charles Spencer Teal in Canada, to parents who moved to Dunseith in North Dakota in 1935.[1] In college Sonne studied with a modern ballet group, and also taught for a year in a North Dakota art institute.[2]
Sonne toured for half a year with a female impersonation revue before coming to New York City and being noticed by Le Carrousel de Paris choreograph, Roger Stefani, at Club 82.[1] Stefani offered a Carrousel contract and within a year Teal was called "The Most Beautiful Legs in Paris",[3] co-starring with Bambi, appearing at Casino de Paris for two years, and touring Europe and North Africa.[2]
Like many other female impersonators of the time Sonne was a trans woman on hormone replacement therapy, whose artistic profession allowed her for self-expression and international travel in a socially acceptable way.[4]
In female impersonation/drag community Sonne was known for sewing and embellishing her dresses, with several of them preserved in an archival collection of University of Minnesota.[1][3]
In 1962 Sonne co-starred with Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski in surrealist Belgian film La Poupée, with Avery Willard claiming that the dirrector Jacques Baratier initially thought Teal was a cis woman, and not a female impersonator.[1][2]
Sonne and four other female impersonators of Le Carrousel (reported to be named Kismie, Coco, Christine and Cobra[5]) international tour died in a plane crash of BOAC Flight 911 near Mount Fuji.[1]
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- (en) « 5024333 » (fiche artiste), sur Discogs
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- « Sonne Teal Collection, Tretter-546. Jean Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies », sur University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides (consulté le )
- « Female Impersonation by Avery Willard », sur www.queermusicheritage.com (consulté le )
- « FI Pictorial Tributes Epilogue » [archive du ]
- (en-US) Adriana Carpenter, « Meet the new curator of the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies », sur continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries, (consulté le )
- (es) Ricardo Vazquez Diaz, Una isla sonora: auralidad, literatura y política en la obra escrita y radial de Severo Sarduy (Cuba, 1937-Francia, 1993) (thèse), University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, , 114–115 p. (lire en ligne)
Category:1928 births
Category:1966 deaths
Category:American drag queens
Category:American LGBT actors
Category:Transgender dancers
Category:American LGBT singers
Category:American transgender people
Category:Transgender women musicians
Category:Transgender actresses