Kenny Kerr
Birth Name:
Kenny Kerr
Birth Place:
New Jersey, United States
Profession
Actor
Fast Facts
- Was the first drag queen to be inducted into the Tropicana's Las Vegas Hall of Fame in 1999
- Was discovered at the age of 15 by producers in Atlantic City who thought he looked like Barbra Streisand
- Began performing at clubs in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia before going to Las Vegas in 1977 to join Sandy Hackett's Sahara Talent Showcase
- Quote: "I enjoy singing live because I'd rather be a first-rate me than a second-rate someone else․"
- His popularity was due largely to the fact that he used his own voice when performing and had a great sense of comedic timing and impressions
- Best known as one of the first and most prominent Las Vegas drag queens in the '70s and '80s
- Was a Vegas entertainment pioneer due to his show "This is Boy-Lesque," which he performed at the Silver Slipper hotel-casino for 12 years, followed by performances at the Sahara, Stardust, Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Hotel, and numerous others
- Made appearances in the 1996 film "The Associate" and in the pilot episode of the 2000 TV series "The Strip․"
- Some of his biggest celebrity fans were Diana Ross, Lola Falana, and Dionne Warwick, and he was friends with Siegfried (of Siegfried & Roy) and Sammy Davis Jr