Born this way | Bangkok Post: Arts & Culture

QUEER

The road to stardom of Lady Gaga and Nuntita "Bell" Khampiranon have something in common.

Nuntita’s idol: the famous transgender crooner Mum Laconic.

There was a time when the world wondered, "is that a man or a woman?" when Lady Gaga stepped into the music scene with her ambiguous sexuality, caused by the rumours of her being a hermaphrodite - not to mention her outrageously, out-of-this-world character. The same question was repeated when millions of viewers of Thailand's Got Talent watched the performance of beautiful transgendered Nuntita who hypnotised the audiences for the very first minute of her act, with her dreamy voice that came out of a slender female figure and girlish complexion, until she KO-ed everyone after unleashing her masculine bass.