When Orville Peck first appeared on the country music scene in 2018, he wore a Zorro-esque mask, hid his mouth behind a tassel fringe and clad himself in fetishistic leather. The country world had yet to warm up to an openly gay crooner, but Orville Peck proved impossible to ignore. It seems he’s simultaneously performing and not performing; he’s both the fictional Orville Peck and Orville Peck’s creator, the person who’s come up with the whole masquerade. “I don’t think of myself as anonymous at all,” he says in the short YouTube documentary The Orville Peck Story. It is perhaps the closest we’ve yet seen to the real Orville Peck.

Source: CBC News June 28, 2022 12:28 UTC