Ask a New Yorker: You have super beautiful, groovy hair. A Dominican hair salon would love to get their hands on you. Do you towel dry?
Patrice: Definitely towel dry, and no time soon will I be going to a Dominican hair salon. I like to do my own hair. I find a joy in it. It’s a lot of fun. I don’t like sitting in a salon. I’m not one to straighten my hair.
Ask a New Yorker: When you Google Dominican hair salons, Ask a New Yorker is an authority, but I’m not.
Patrice: It’s a straightening technique where they have a very hot dryer and a comb.
Ask a New Yorker: On a hair note. Would Donald Trump make a good president?
Patrice: Anything is possible if you believe in it. I think Donald Trump has made some great business choices.
Ask a New Yorker: Spoken like a true politician.
Patrice: I have some conservative and liberal views.
Ask a New Yorker: We’re getting somewhere. If you were a tree would type would you be?
Patrice: A weeping Willow. I think they’re gorgeous. They’re a great shade tree.
Ask a New Yorker: When was the last time you walked across the Brooklyn Bridge? I ask this question a lot because I do it several times per month.
Patrice: That would be last summer. I usually do it in the spring and the summer and a couple of times in the fall. My favorite part of the walk is from Brooklyn to Manhattan because you get the best views of the city, so beautiful. In the summer time at the end of the bridge there’s always people selling water and snacks.
Ask a New Yorker: If you could change one thing in the city what would it be?
Patrice: For there to be an escalator at every subway train station. There are some days that I just don’t want to walk up stairs. In fact I do know all the stations that have them so I sort of gravitate and navigate to those stations.
Ask a New Yorker: The New York Marathon is probably not in the cards for you, then?
Patrice: I love to dance, that’s how I get my exercise. I take yoga. My approach to health and wellness is the less stress on the knees, the better.
Ask a New Yorker: Who are you?
Patrice: I’m a wealth of loveliness. (laughter) I’m originally from Florida. Both my parents are educators. I have twin sisters. My father is from New York City and my mother is from Texas. So I have a bit of a northern and southern thing going on in my composition.
Ask a New Yorker: What do you do for a living?
Patrice: I handle the PR for a vocal ensemble called Bending Threads. We are a self-produced company. We do all different kinds of work in and around the cabaret and night life scene. That’s my 6-10, otherwise I’m one of the assistant buyers for a group of spas called Exhale. In Bending Threads I’m also one of the lead singers. We are a four-part harmony group. What makes us so special is our arrangements. We do all our own arrangements to popular songs you’ve heard before. We build beautiful chord structures. We take a song and twist it around and change the melody, change the key but it will be recognizable in some way.Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqtGQXzVp8
Ask a New Yorker: Do you snore?
Patrice: I think so. I’ve been told.
Ask a New Yorker: By your boyfriend?
Patrice: I don’t have a boyfriend!
Ask a New Yorker: So where are you off to now?
Patrice: Off to a voice lesson.
Ask a New Yorker: If it was a Piano lesson I would say, “Off to tickle the ivories”.
Patrice: To a singing lesson I would say, “Off to rumble your folds!”
Ask a New Yorker: Love it. Keep on rumbling.
