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Transformist, transvestite or drag queen. Different terms for the same meaning: that person who dresses in clothes of the opposite sex to offer a show. An art that has been around for decades and that has Kika Lorace (37) today as one of its greatest exponents.

"I started in 2009, out of curiosity. He acted in celebrations of friends where I travesty, until one day he offered me act in a bar. By then works barber , I was alternating with the show until after the boom of Chueca is great , I left the hairdresser and I could dedicate myself exclusively to this ", recalls Kika. The song to which it refers is a particular version that became an LGTBIQ + anthem in 2015 and has almost reached four million views on YouTube.

When it comes time to put on her pink wig and colorful wardrobe, she doesn't feel like there's a dichotomy on her person. "There is no alter ego. In fact there is a lot of Kike in Kika , and vice versa. Although Kika is the one that breaks my shyness, because the character requires it, and she is one more part of me. I don't like it very much think about these things, because I end up thinking, will I have a double personality? " , she inevitably laughs, and despite the fact that she claims to enjoy her vocational work a lot, "after three hours it is true that heels kill me, everything gets in my way and I am already looking forward to finishing".

His duality on stage does not prevent him from having things clear. "I feel good dressing up as a woman, as something artistic, but I am very clear that I don't feel like a woman," she clarifies. She has long since left the center of Madrid and moved to live in a small town in Granada, from where she moves every time the recruitment arises. From her haven of peace, she realized that "when you go to perform in a smaller city, where everything is less seen than in Chueca, it seems that you do not know what is going to happen, but the reality is that later there is The family is another of its conquered lands, happy with the successes it reaps. " My parents even watch my live shows on Instagram ! And my sister has had an exemplary attitude because she always told my nephews what my profession was and she transmitted it naturally. Today they are my best fans," she replies with satisfaction.

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Among his idols were neither folk nor pop singers. " I have always loved Los Morancos a lot . They are my reference. They were also transvestites, with very gay humor and making versions of songs." Also aware of the cons of his profession, he acknowledges: "Transformism has always been reviled, there is a rejection of the fact of seeing an uncle dressed as a woman because it is not known it is appreciated as an acting job and there are people who reduce it to the idea of a fagot painted. " That is why he always appreciates the presence of a heterosexual audience, although what he likes the most is " when parents bring their children , just as they can take them to a Chenoa concert. They have a great time, and maybe they only knew me for the series, "he says, referring to his participation in several chapters of La que se avecina.

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He assures that he invests a lot in his video clips and in costumes, because in addition "going pretty always comes out expensive", and concludes, "cross-dressing is not going to be lost, I see as much future as it has had the past. What is being lost is the point from the usual cabaret , and the new generations focus more on beauty, partly due to the RuPaul phenomenon.They give great value to aesthetics, and we must not forget comedy, which can spend four hours telling jokes. That is wonderful".

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