Lady Gaga opened the Grammy Nominations Concert Live tonight with an expected, yet highly anticipated, performance of her latest single "Marry the Night." Per usual, the pop superstar combined theatrics with on-spot vocalizations and started the special off on the "right" foot.
The Mother Monster's Rick Genest imitation make-up was on display, though Gaga wasn't the carbon copy of Rico the Zombie that she presented in the "Born This Way" video. The make-up is viewable in this Twitpic of the star from earlier in the day as well as in the YouTube video embedded below. Chances are a more detailed application of the look would not have cleaned off fast enough for Lady Gaga to hit the stage again to close the program with Sugarland. As it was, she sported full-on blacked out eyes for their duet of her hit single "You and I."
Brazilian short film AQUARIO by Bruno Ilogti, starring Rick Genest and Marcela Jacobina.
This film will be featured at the 22nd Brazilian International Short Film Festival.
Bio
It’s easy to imagine Rick Genest, also known as Zombie Boy, looking spooky under the spotlight in a Montreal sideshow and in the occasional magazine spread. Through the saving grace of Facebook, he was found by Nicolas Formichetti, a behindthe-scenes visionary who works closely with Lady Gaga and has his stamp on many other big-name fashion projects. He had seen Rico (Zombie Boy’s more conventional name) on the internet, but assumed the extensively tattooed visage and body were the result of hour-long sessions of body painting, having styled many a grueling photo shoot himself. He underestimated Rico’s zealous passion. Rico had dedicated his body to his art, which is an ode to a decomposing corpse aswell as a tribute to horror movies, not surprisingly, his favoritegenre. Having spent thousands of dollars and over three years on this transformation, Rico’s investment has finally paid off. Formichetti paid his overdue fines for sleeping on the street so that he could get a passport to walk in the Thierry Mugler Paris show, for which he was also the muse.
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