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I'm Katey.
我是凯蒂。
I made it, I said it, I ate it, ya heard me?
我做了，我说了，我吃了，你听见了吗？
I am from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I'm a bounce artist, aka The Legendary Katey Red, iconic.
我来自路易斯安那新奥尔良，我是一名bounce艺人，人送外号“传奇凯蒂红”。
I was known to be the first transgender/homosexual rapper, bounce artist.
大家都知道我是第一个跨性别/同性恋说唱歌手，bounce艺人。
Bounce bounce, do that, work, work, do that
Bounce bounce, 跳吧，工作，工作，做吧。
That, is Miss Katey Red.
这位就是凯蒂红小姐。
A legendary bounce artist who's been doing it for over 20 years.
她是一位传奇的bounce艺人，跳bounce已经跳了20多年了。
But before we get to her story, what exactly is bounce?
不过，再我们具体讲述她的故事之前，我们先来了解一下到底什么是bounce吧。
People may call it "twerking," the correct name for it is "bouncing."
人们可能会把这种舞蹈叫作“电臀舞”，但正确的叫法应该是“bouncing”。
It's shake-your-ass music, that's what bounce music is, it's shake-your-ass music.
就是甩臀舞舞曲，bounce音乐就是甩臀舞舞曲。
The origin of bounce music can be traced back to the mid '80s, to a DJ duo from Queens, known as The Showboys.
bounce音乐可以追溯到80年代中期来自皇后区的DJ二重奏组合“表演男孩”。
They took the theme from Dragnet and sampled it into this:
他们从Dragnet那部电影里获取了主题，然后做成了这种音乐：
Eventually, it made its way to New Orleans where the beat got sped up, looped,
最终，这种曲风传到了新奥尔良，那里的艺人们加快了音乐的节奏，同时加上循环鼓点，
and by the early '90s, bounce was a mainstay in New Orleans music.
到90年代早期，bounce就已然成了新奥尔良音乐的支柱。
Soon enough, bounce went from a hyperlocal New Orleans sound to influencing some of mainstream's biggest artists, like Drake and Beyoncé.
很快，bounce又从新奥尔良的超本地化音乐转变成了一种连Drake和Beyoncé之类的主流巨星都深受影响的音乐。
I don't know what it is about that sound, but whatever that sound be, it have you moving to your feet, baby.
我也不知道这种音乐到底有什么魔力，但无论它的魔力是什么，它就是会让你的双腿开始跳动起来。
My fist concert, I was scared.
第一次开演唱会的时候，我很害怕。
I was scared, I was so nervous.
我超级害怕，超级紧张。
As soon as I got up there, and I was like "How y'all doin'?"
但我一站到舞台上，跟大家打招呼“你们好吗”？
and they was screaming out loud, "We love you! We love your music!" And I'm like, that was like, what a big relief.
底下的粉丝就大声尖叫，“我们喜欢你！我们喜欢你的音乐！”当时我就觉得，太好了，心里的石头终于落地了。
Let me hear y'all over here, "Come on, Katey baby, come on!"
让我听到你们的声音，跟我一起喊“加油，凯蒂宝贝儿，加油！”
Come on, Katey baby, come on!
“加油，凯蒂宝贝儿，加油！”
It takes a certain amount of brashness and bravado to make it as a bounce artist.
要想成为bounce艺人，你得会自以为是，你得敢冒险。
Let alone as an openly gay or transgender one.
更不用说要以公开的同性恋或变性人的身份来走这条路了。
But Katey is not one to shy away from anything.
但凯蒂不是一个会逃避的人。
Thank y'all, thank y'all so much for coming.
谢谢你们，非常感谢你们的到来。
I wish I got more time with y'all.
我也希望能跟你们多待一会儿。
Me opening doors for a lot of bounce artists and all the gay artists, I think about that a lot.
我要为许多bounce艺人和所有的同性恋艺术家打开一扇大门，我经常都会想到这一问题。
The bounce scene is more acceptant, but at first it wasn't.
跳bounce的场面现在变得更具吸引力了，但一开始并不是这个样子的。
I was bold and brave, but at the same time I was scared, but I still had to do me.
我大胆而勇敢，同时我也很害怕，但我还是要做我自己。
A lot of gay guys would come up here and say, "Katey, you are the reason I told my mom I was gay,"
很多同性恋都会跟我说：“凯蒂，是你给了我跟妈妈坦白自己是同性恋的勇气，”
because I was like, I live in the city of music, I make people be who they are, and who they really wanna be.
因为我生活在音乐之城，我让大家勇敢地做自己，成为他们真正想成为的人。
You only get one life, and nobody can run your life but you.
人只能活一次，除了你自己，没有人能够左右你的生命。
