Billy Porter

Billy Porter is a Grammy, Emmy, and two-time Tony Award winner.

Porter is a veteran of the theatre (Miss Saigon, Angels in America, Grease), and a two time Tony winner, including Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots in 2013 and Best Musical as a producer for A Strange Loop in 2022. He has also received a Grammy for the Kinky Boots official soundtrack in the category of Best Musical Theatre Album in 2014. Porter took home the Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2019 for his work as Pray Tell on Pose, making history as being the first openly gay man to do so. TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of 2020. Billyreleased his highly anticipated memoir, Unprotected, in October 2021. His directorial film debut, Anything’s Possible, dropped summer 2022 to much acclaim.

Porter began his music career in 1997 with the release of his self-titled (aka untitled) debut album which spawned the top 10 “bubbling under” single, Show Me, and the monster ballad, Love is on the Way, which also appeared at the pivotal moment in the film, First Wives Club. He went on to release At The Corner of Broadway + Soul (2005), Billy’s Back on Broadway (2014), and The soul of Richard Rodgers (2017) featuring Pentatonix, India Arie, Leslie Odom Fr. and Cynthia Erivo, among others. Porter scored his first #1 with Love Yourself in 2019 on the US Dance Club Songs Chart. He followed that up with his 2020 reimagining of the legendary Buffalo Springfield anthem, For What it’s Worth, and a fierce collab with the Shapeshifters on Finally Ready. 2021 saw Porter covering Juliet Roberts’ club classic Caught in the Middle for Red Hot + Free, which supports underserved communities
afflicted with HIV/AIDS. He was also enlisted by multi-platinum international superstar Jessie J for I Want Love and he delivered a magical turn on Earth, Wind, and Fire’s iconic Shining Star as Fab G,
The Fairy Godmuva, in the 2021 remake of Cinderella.