MikeQ

Michael Cox, known as MikeQ, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and grew up in Newark, where at seventeen he first encountered the ballroom scene at a party at The Globe. He began releasing music in 2004 and joined the House of LaBeija. His debut EP Let It All Out came out on Fade to Mind in 2011, and in 2012 he founded Qween Beat, the first label dedicated to ballroom music, vogue tracks, re-edits and remixes. He produced the music for the 2016 documentary Kiki, co-founded the House of Vogue party in New York in 2017 and became resident DJ on the HBO series Legendary in 2020. His track Feel's Like, with Kevin Jz Prodigy, was sampled on Beyoncé's album Renaissance.