![]() Two singles from the debut appeared on the Billboard R&B songs chart.Īs a recording artist, he released the self-titled Billy Porter (aka Untitled) in 1997. Porter continued to win roles in films, on stage, and on television such as Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the new millennium. Porter hopes his song can be carried into the 2020 election cycle as a way to inspire folks to vote and be politically active. Amidst his acting work, he released the live album At the Corner of Broadway + Soul with Sh-K-Boom Records in 2005. ![]() I decided to record ‘For What It’s Worth’ because I wanted to have my art and my music matter, make a difference, he explained. ![]() He stayed busy on Broadway and Off-Broadway with shows including but not limited to Little Shop of Horrors and Angels in America in the 2010s, leading up to his role as Lola in Kinky Boots, which earned him a 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He appears on the show's original Broadway cast recording. The album Billy's Back on Broadway followed in the spring of 2014 via Concord Records, and his next album took on the works of musical theater legend Richard Rodgers with guests including India.Arie, Pentatonix, and Leslie Odom, Jr.
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