Billy Porter calls for change

NEW YORK, NY—Recently, GRAMMY®, EMMY®, and twice Tony® Award-winning singer, composer, director, author, actor, and playwright Billy Porter shares a timely and empowering new song entitled “Stranger Things” (https://is.gd/Muk9pG) via Island UK and Republic Records.

Billy debuted the song during anincendiary set at the Global Citizen Festival (https://is.gd/jneYcx) in New York City. Fittingly, he introduced the song by declaring, “I came with a message of hope.” The track makes good on this promise. Over a strong and soulful beat punctuated by funk guitar, the vocals resound with unrestrained spirit proclaiming, “We can’t lose when we stick together.”

Billy Porter commented, “I’m proud to say that STRANGER THINGS (https://is.gd/Muk9pG) is a call to action. A reminder that none of the extreme trauma that we’ve been experiencing in this moment is new, and that the human spirit is resilient. No one is going to save us from ourselves but ourselves. Stranger things have already happened to all of us. So — it’s time to get to work.”

The new song follows “Children” (https://is.gd/plRMiU), which has received over 6 million global streams to date. Check out the official music video for “Children (https://is.gd/gC2VqG).” PopSugar hailed the song as “a celebration of life and it comes at a time in the world when people could use a little extra energy to motivate them.”

A true cultural force of nature, Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, arrived to unanimous critical applause this summer. It notably holds a coveted “Certified Fresh” critics score of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes with praise from CNN, Boston Herald, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and RogerEbert.com who summed it up as “groundbreaking.” Porter recently released the paperback version of his best-selling memoir, Unprotected. The New York Times touts: "This is not just a memoir, saints; this is a testimony."

About

Billy Porter is a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner. Porter began his music career in 1997 with the release of his self-titled (aka Untitled) debut album which spawned the Top 10 "Bubbling Under" single, "Show Me," and the monster ballad, "Love Is On The Way," which also appeared at the pivotal moment in the film, "First Wives Club." He went on to release "At the Corner of Broadway + Soul" (2005), "Billy's Back on Broadway" (2014), and "The Soul of Richard