On her second album, What Are You?, Shaker Heights native Mara Levi outs a closeted girlfriend to her parents. “I thought I’d call and let you know/Your daughter is a big homo,” she sings in the appropriately titled “Homo Song.” The 30-year-old singer-songwriter now lives in Washington, D.C., but her local lesbian fan base has kept tabs on her — though she claims they don’t know everything about her. “I watch way too much TV,” she laughs. “And sleep more than my [girlfriend] would like.”
Mon., April 9, 8:30 p.m.
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2007.