Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess. And you know my next guest from

her reign in New York City Nightlife and her appearances on Caitlyn Jenner's Show,

I am Kate. She was the first trans woman to star in a scripted TV series. We're going

to get into all of that and more. Hi, Candice Kane. Hi, how are you? I'm great. How are

you? I'm good. A little crazy these days with everything that the world has given us.

And then I decided to do a construction project at the same time. So it's interesting.

You live in LA, right? I live in LA. I'm a New Yorker. I know. We're going to get into

all of it. So I followed your Nightlife career as a performer. You know, you're an amazing

dancer and have always been curious about your backstory. So just thank you so much for

coming on. I've loved you forever. That is so sweet. Thank you so much for that.

So I guess we'll start back when you were growing up in Hawaii. Was there anybody that

you really looked up to like any artists, performers who first caught your eye?

Yeah, I grew up in Maui and I mean, there weren't any LGBT people to idolize, really. I mean,

my idolization, like my favorite person, other than like, you know, boy George and, you

know, all of those singers, Gazz and Durand Durand. And like I just, you know, to Pesh mode,

I loved like old-school Hollywood, but my favorite was Sitcheries and Sofila Ram. Those

were my two favorite Sitcheries because she's just an idol to me. She's an amazing beauty

and a dancer like no other. And I mean, there are dancers as good as she is, but not as good

as projecting her ability on camera. And she was who I looked up to. And my parents when I was

little played me singing in the rain. When I was 10, I saw it for the first time. And I loved

it so much and all I could stare at was Sitcheries during the whole thing. And so I just kind of grew

up wanting to be able to move like that and do what she did. Did you take dance lessons as a kid?

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