Susi Pop - Not Man, Not Woman, Just A Damn Good Person

"I am a sweet transvestite of the Transylvania transsexual", so he introduced himself in public Dr. Frank N. Furter, protagonist of the cult film 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'. The same motto was posted in Myspace about the singer and artist Susi Pop, whose lifeless body was 5 years ago found in the in the Segovia Street. The cause of death is not determined. Susi Pop made herself very popular then later famous when she became one of the members of the group 'Nancy's Blondes', created in 1994, by the artistic representative Mario Vaquerizo, husband of Alaska. "She was one of the most special people I have known. Her absence would leave an enormous void in all of us. She was a constant source of great ideas and vitality", he so declared to the press in Madrid. The now well known name of the group was Susi's brain child. She was born Jesus Galindo in 1975, in Seville but was reborn in Madrid with a new identity. Like the good discipline of Warhol, she worked as wardrobe mistress of the Berlin Cabaret, one of the key spots of the circuit of night entertainment in the capital. She became a habitual of the nocturnal club hopper, putting on occasionally some of her experimental musical projects, collaborating with her friend Putirecords. At the end of the 90's when Fangoria reappeared with the disc 'Una temporada en el infierno' (A brief period in hell), she was seen always in the front row of his concerts, or in queues in the Gran Via in Madrid, waiting at the door of the now disappeared 'Madrid Rock', for the autograph of her idols. The artists she adored included Bowie, Ramones, New York Dolls, Adam Ant, Bauhaus and Marilyn Manson. The admiration soon turned to friendship and in June of 2003, in the private birthday party of Alaska in the famous Morocco Club, Susi improvised an unforgettable play-back of the theme 'Happy House', original of Siouxsie, one of the myths together with the birthday girl. She was by then part of a group of dancers that went round the circuit of night spots, baptised as the 'Ballet Special K'. She had also sung with Alaska a version of 'I want to be Santa in the Galileo Club. She was treasured by all who had known her as a wonderful person, always elegant, and very intelligent, considerate to all others, and never once troubled anyone with her own problems or took advantage of friendship. Nobody knew why she died so suddenly, or had she perhaps taken her own life. They just all felt extremely sad and empty. From London Alaska and Nacho Ganut, emerged in the recording of their new album of Fangoria, cried the sad loss of their dear friend. Alaska had before in her book 'Transgresoras' dedicated the words: To Susi, not a man, nor a woman, nor a transvestite, nor need to be. She is my kind of a damn good person.' That dedication might just be the right tribute to say good-bye to her. Tags:cabaret,susipop,transvestite

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