Biography
Michael Musto is an American journalist who has long been a fixture in publications pertaining to entertainment as well as on websites and TV shows. He is best known for being a columnist for The Village Voice, where he wrote the gossipy La Dolce Musto column and contributed reviews, interviews, and political observations. In 2021, he began contributing articles to the revived Village Voice, which was published again in print along with an accompanying website, about nightlife, movies, theater, NYC, and LGBTQ politics.
Age
He is 68 years old as of 3 December 2023. He was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Family – Education
Musto was born into an Italian American household in Manhattan. Born and raised in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst, he earned his Columbia University degree in 1976. He worked as a theatrical reviewer for the Columbia Spectator while he was a student.
Partner
Musto is a gay writer who has contributed often to numerous LGBT magazines, such as Out and The Advocate.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Career
He has a rich history of covering society, nightlife, and superstar culture. His most memorable editorial positions included covering society for Bazaar magazine, SoHo Week by week News, and After Dull magazine, as well as turning into the music pundit for Us magazine during the 1980s.
In 1982, Musto started composition for Subtleties, a midtown style-and-nightlife magazine, and in 1984, he started his Town Voice section. His first-individual segment celebrated nightlife and LGBT characters, depicted freakish New York club fetes, and gave indispensable early inclusion to anticipated entertainers like John Sex, RuPaul, Kiki and Spice, Bridget Everett, Jackie Hoffman, Bianca Del Rio, and Peppermint.
Musto was an incredible close companion with the videographer, Nelson Sullivan, who shot a large part of the recording that exists of the “Club Children” and fanatically chronicled Musto’s endeavors and those of RuPaul and Sylvia Miles. He additionally utilized his segment to lambast homophobia and request consideration regarding the developing Guides emergency, joining the lobbyist bunch Misbehave and participating in their profoundly powerful mobilizes and dissents. In 2011, The Supporter magazine alluded to Musto’s “amazing tattle section” and said, “Starting around 1984, adroit and humble comedian Michael Musto has composed his ‘La Dolce Musto’ segment, resolutely chronicling nightlife and big name culture. The extension consuming blogger and nobleman of visually impaired things has procured a situation as both student of history and representative for the gay local area.”
During the 1980s, Musto did nightlife-related fragments for MTV, where his un-hesitant gayness appeared to be revolutionary. Videotographer Nelson Sullivan picked Musto as one of his #1 subjects and perseveringly followed the author through clubs, appearances, and family social gatherings, a significant number of the recordings later surfacing on YouTube. From 1993 to 2000, Musto was quite possibly of the most unmistakable journalist on The Tattle Show, an E! program which highlighted vivid journalists handing-off superstar dish. In 1999, he cohosted “New York Focal”, a daily magazine-design show on the Metro Channel.
Musto wrote a few writeups in The Town Voice about the 1996 homicide of Andre “Heavenly messenger” Melendez, pointing out public a case that brought about the preliminary and conviction of Michael Alig and Robert “Freeze” Riggs. He was quick to report Alig’s terminating from The Spotlight club by proprietor Peter Gatien and to suggest discuss a missing individual from Alig’s circle. A later Town Voice highlight story recognized Musto’s breaking thing.
In 2001, Musto showed up in a weighty advertisement crusade for Fortunoff in which he brandished a wedding cover, campily advancing the chance of same-sex marriage. In 2010, Musto made an appearance in Deletion’s re-arrival of A Little Regard (HMI Revival), with continues gave to help understudies going to the Harvey Milk Foundation. In 2010, LCD Soundsystem referenced Musto in the melody “Pow” energetically encouraging him to “Eat it” (strange counter for chat among Musto and the gathering’s James Murphy at a Paper Nightlife Grants function).
In 2011, Musto was named one of the “Out 100” as one of the country’s most persuasive LGBT characters. In 2013, he played himself in a scene on the NBC series “Crush,” having recently figured in a plot line including his tattle composing.
Musto, a multi-skilled craftsman, has a different foundation in acting and singing. In 1980, he turned into the lead vocalist of a Motown cover band called the Unquestionable requirement and imparted a bill to Madonna. He played a lead job in the film Vamp Bikers Tres, featuring as a head specialist named Hedda Container close by Holy messenger Salazar. The film debuted in 2016 and was delivered in 2018 by the Plantation. Musto likewise sang a pop/reggae/dance tune, “I Got Ur Back,” for Trax Records in 2017. A big name dish of Musto at Entertainers Sanctuary in 2017 collected critical cash for the Callen-Lorde facility. The meal highlighted Bianca Del Rio, Jinkx Storm, Judy Gold, Orfeh, Randy Rainbow, and Luann de Lesseps. Musto has won eight Glitz Grants for Best Nightlife Essayist/Blogger and their Remarkable person grant. He has been named one of Kind magazine’s “Men We Love” on numerous occasions, won a Lifetime Accomplishment grant at the Gay Exhibition at Javits Center, and got an extraordinary honor from the Majestic Court of New York.