Gay Music Chart Awards 2015 - Best Live Performance Nominees

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It's time to choose the Best Live Performance of 2015 ! YOU decide what was the best of 2015. 

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The nominees are : 

A-Mei 張惠妹 – Rainbow 彩虹 (Live Taipei Arena 2015) In April 2015, the Taiwanese gay icon made a concert at Taipei Arena. While she sang her gay hymn "Rainbow 彩虹", the public rolled out a huge rainbow flag. The applause where huge too when the screens showed a gay kiss under the rainbow flag.


Christine & The Queens – Christine (Live Victoires de la Musique 2015) Christine is a French queer artist who released at the end of the year 2014 her first album "Chaleur humaine", which had a huge success in France and Belgium where it reached number 1. She's actually promoted her US version of her album, with TV appearances (like in the Daily Show), concerts, and collaboration with queer artist Perfume Genius for the single "Jonathan". "Christine" is the most successful single taken from this album. It reached number 1 in Belgium and number 3 in France. The choreographed music video, where some people compare her to Michael Jackson for her moves, has 20,5 millions views and 73.000 likes on YouTube at the end of the year 2015. This live was performed at French Awards ceremony "Les victoires de la Musique" in February 2015, where she won several awards for Best Female Artist, Best Music Video, and Best Song Writer.


Conchita Wurst & Dana international – Waterloo (Live @ Eurovision’s Greatest Hits Concert) The Eurovision Song Contest celebrated in April 2015 its 60th anniversary with a special concert at London's Eventim Apollo Hammersmith. Presented by hosts Graham Norton and Eurovision 2013 presenter Petra Mede, several artists from the past editions of the contest sang their songs. To close this event, Israeli transgender Dana International (winner in 1998 with "Diva") and Austrian bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst (winner in 2014 with "Rise Like a Phoenix") made a duo on ABBA's "Waterloo" : one of the gayest moment of the year.


Erlend Bratland - Thunderstruck (Live @ Melodi Grand Prix 2015, Gold final)
In March 2015, Erlend Bratland took part in the Melodi Grand Prix 2015, the Norwegian national selections to Eurovision Song Contest. The openly gay contestant went to the Gold Final and made an amazing performance, that allowed him to finish second in the competition. Well done Erlend !


Fun Home Musical (on Broadway) "Fun Home" is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. Adapted from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name, it tells the story of Bechdel's relationship with her gay father and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. The original Broadway production was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning five including Best Musical. The show's cast album has been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.


Jamie Lambert - Again (Live @ Hippodrome on September 18th, 2015) Openly gay member of British boy band Collabro, Jamie participated in September 2015 at a concert of Scott Allan. He sang "Again", one the song of the artist, but he changed the lyrics a little bit He switched the words to be sung towards a man, which is the first time it’s ever been done for this particular song. The result is a splendid interpretation of a gay love song, full of emotions.


Jeremy Jordan - It’s All Coming Back To Me Now (Live @ Broadway Loves Celine Dion on January 9th, 2015) Jeremy Jordan is an American actor and singer, best known for his lead roles in musicals on Broadway or in TV Show "Smash". For a special concert "Broadway Loves Celine Dion" on January 2015 in Feinstein's/54 Below in New York, he made an amazing performance of "It's All Coming Back To Me Now", full of emotion, humour and even a little gay twist. Just ... fantastic.


Madonna - Rebel Heart Tour 2015 The gay icon released this year her 13rd studio album "Rebel heart" and (650.000 copies sold worldwide) and made the "Rebel heart Tour" to promote it. At the end of 2015, the tour placed at number 11 on Pollstar's "2015 Year-End Top 100 Worldwide Tours" list. The big event during the show is of course the moment when she invites a guest on stage while she sings "Unapologetic Bitch". Sometimes, there are is prestigious guests like Katy Perry, Nelly Furtado, Jessica Chastain, Anderson Cooper, Amy Schumer, Jean-Paul Gautier, Graham Norton, Diplo, Christine from Christie and the Queens...


Miley Cyrus - Dooo It (MTV's Video Music Awards 2015) For several reasons, 2015 was the year when Miley became a LGBTQ icon. At first, she founded The Happy Hippie Foundation, a nonprofit organization strives to help homeless and LGBT youth. To promote her foundation, she made several live backyard sessions with differents artists like Ariana Grande (for "Don't Dream it's Over") or Joan Jett (for "Different" or "Androgynous") for examples. Secondly, she came out publicly as genderfluid, having said that she "[doesn't] relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl." And finally, in August 2015, she made a really queer presentation of the MTV Music Awards 2015, especially with her performance of “Dooo It!” with 30 drag queens on stage !


Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila - This Time (Eurovision Song Contest 2015) "This Time" was the Lithuanian song of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 2015. And it took everybody by surprise. First of all because a gay couple kiss in the music video of the duo, but even more when same-sex kisses were released on stage during the live performance by the choristes ! Unexpected from an ex-USSR country. A sign of change of mentalities ? Or a response to the polemic caused by the Lithuanian hist in 2014 who said it was time to shave while giving points to Conchita Wurst's act ? Probably both. The audience loved it, but not Russian politicians. The act came 7th in semi-final and 18th in final.


Sam Smith - Lay Me Down (Live at The BRIT Awards 2015) Sam Smith is a 23 years old British openly gay singer who made his coming out last year. His first album "In the Lonely Hour" is a huge success, with 8,5 millions copies sold worldwide. In 2015, he won 4 Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards, and a Golden Globe in the beginning of 2016. He became since last year the LGBT artist most mediatized in gay medias worldwide. Everything he says or does (his love relationships, his opinion about LGBT rights, his pictures on Instagram, his lose of weight, his musical actuality like with his music video "Lay Me Down" about marriage equality, or his second collaboration with Disclosure with the single "Omen", or his James Bond’s song for "Spectre", a premiere for a gay artist in this franchise) is reported from Europe to Russia, from the USA to China. This live performance of was realised at The Brit Awards 2015, in February, where he won the Awards for "Lay Me Down" Best British Breakthrough Act and BRITs Global Success.


The ESC Vienna All Stars - Building Bridges (Eurovision Song Contest 2015) The 2015 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna, Austria, after the victory of Conchita Wurst in 2014. Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler, Arabella Kiesbauer and Conchita Wurst were the hosts of the 60th contest, and they performed one of the most memorable opening act for the final on May 23rd.


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