From The Advocate magazine, I'm Jeffrey Masters and you're listening to LGBTQ and A.

Today I'm talking to the singer-songwriter, Rabel.

You know, Rabel from songs like 11 Blocks and The Village.

We talk about what it's like to be a queer person working in the music industry.

There are more openly queer people than ever making music, and it's really interesting

to hear Rable talk about occupying that space, as well as specifically writing songs that

mention and refer to as queerness. So that is coming up. Now, if you have not yet subscribed to the

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All right, without further ado, here's Raeul. or do. Here's Rayleigh. I love your music. I had no idea, though, what a successful songwriter you also are.

Oh, thank you. Yeah. For everybody who doesn't know, you have written for Kesha, Adam Lambert, Ellie Golding, Ida Mansell, you wrote the new Backstreet Boy song that came out.

That's got to be pretty cool.

That was very cool and very bizarre.

How so?

I originally wrote it for me with two friends, Stuart and Jamie.

And I don't know, it's just like you'd never expect to get an email that says

the backstreet boys would like to record your song. I feel like that's not an email that you

think you're ever going to get in your life. Right. And especially after, you know,

they hadn't released music in years. So it was a total, and I didn't know they were like coming

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