Phat Man Dee was recently nominated "One to Watch" in the pop music category of Pittsburgh Magazine's Harry Schwalb Awards has a voice and a stage presence that rings clear as a bell. Her soulful delivery and heart ripping phrasing make the story of the song come through her body like a mountain rising to meet the sea. She has toured and appeared with Candye Kane, the Goddess Perlman's Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, the Fat Bottomed Girls Burlesque Review, Chicken John's Circus Ridiculous, Wolgemut, Jazz Mandolin Project, the Bindlestiff Family Roadshow, The Bull Seal! Collective, SEEMEN, and Heavy Pedal Cyclecide.

She has appeared at the Improv as an opener for Caroline Rhea (NBC), Joe's Pub (NYC), Cabaret @ Theater Square, Exotic Erotic Ball (SF, CA), NYC Burlesque Fest, the Derby (LA, CA) , Rosematy's Billygoat's Odditoriom (LA, CA)the Andy Warhol Museum and the Great American Music Hall. Her best singing was performed at the Point Arena Lighthouse, and she ever longs for a return. She does love a parade, and to date, parades love her.

One evening will burn forever in the mind of Phat Man Dee, and that was her appearance with the Pittsburgh Opera wherein she sang an entire set of french cabaret love songs at the Benedum Center swinging aloft from a floral swing. (Though the night Circus Rediculous almost burned down the camp site at the Lafayette, Lousiana Festivale Internationale, in a misguided and unfortunate attempt to play flaming soccer ball with the misprinted tour shirts and the Veg-O-Matic of the Apocalypse burns nearly as bright.) Truly, however, besides the night of her marriage to Tommy Amoeba, the best night of Phat Man Dee's life occurred when she sang to the Serpent Mother, a sculptural elemental force created by the Flaming Lotus Girls in the desert on Septmber 1, 2006.

Televsion and broadcast appearances include FUSE TV, KDKA Morning Show, WTAE Evening News, CSPAN, Judge Joe Brown (Fox), On Q (WQED), Lynn Cullen's Talk Show (WPTT).

Discography

"Life Just Goes On" was recorded at Mr Smalls Funhouse 2002 and re-released again in 2005.

Curently in rotation at WYEP, WRCT, WPTS and the Pittsburgh International Airport.

The single "Man Be Man" was included in a 3 disc compilation produced by WYEP and the single "Blue Like Billie" was included in a promotional Pittsburgh cd produced by Tereneh Idia Mosley, director of talent attraction for the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance.

Currently in the studio with "Torch of Blue", Phat Man Dee hopes to release her new disc by 2006.