Kevin Aviance does not fit into one category of entertainment. He is at once an entertaining performer, a recording artist whose songs top the charts and vibrate through the club world, an innovator of fashion and style, a model and muse of top designers, a talented and studied dancer, or, as he likes to call himself, an Entity.
Aviance has five top ten Billboard hits under his belt including his postmillennial club anthem "Alive", the pulsating, hypnotic dance classic that climbed all the way to #1. He spent a year touring the world, spreading the song's celebratory and life-affirming message to people living in crisis and civil unrest including war-torn Israel.
He has appeared in several films, including Flawless starring Robert De Niro and the independent film Punks. Besides his feature-film work he has made guest appearances on such shows as The Tyra Banks Show, and America's Next Top Model, also hosted by Tyra Banks. His songs "Din Da Da,", "Rhythm Is My Bitch", "Alive", "Give It Up" and "Strut", have all reached #1 on the Billboard dance chart. Aviance's most successful dance radio hit to date is "Give It Up" released in 2004.
Aviance has been called many things: "the hardest working performer in New York clubland" (Spectrum Magazine), "an artist who commands attention" (Miamiago Magazine), "an entity" (Genre Magazine), "a crowd pleaser…energetic and glamorous" (Buzz Magazine). One thing is for sure, as reported in Time Out New York, "Kevin Aviance isn't your ordinary, average, everyday (performance artist)."
"My roots are and will always be with the House of Aviance," Kevin proudly declares, referring to the legendary Vogue house started in Washington, DC, which was similar to New York City's House of Extravaganzas who held court at Junior Vasquez's Sound Factory in the early nineties. It was through the House of Aviance that Kevin gained entrance into the club scene, first as a promoter and then a performer. It is also from the House of Aviance where Kevin took his name. Kevin Aviance was raised in Richmond, Virginia.
