“My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.”

American television personality, singer, broadcaster, producer, and actress

Michelle Visage is an American television personality, singer, broadcaster, producer, and actress. She first came to wider attention as a member of the dance-pop group Seduction, active on the Billboard Hot 100 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She later became the lead vocalist of The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M., whose 1993 single "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day" reached the top of the dance charts. Her career spans music and television, with work across performance, hosting, and production.