Not everyone’s live is a bed of rose, some would have to ride a roller coaster since childhood, like Peak - Thanisa Ruengboon, the star in the column ‘Sassy Queer’ of june, that will tell her story about her childhood, her school life, and the beginning of her work in calypso cabaret, and her travel throughout the world that changed her life.

Flashback to Childhood, From when do you realise you femininity?
Since as long as I can remember, I know that I am a queer. I used to wear my mother highheels around when I was still taken cared of by sitter. It’s still fresh in my mind...

So how’s growing up like? Do your parent prohibit you for anything?
In solemn honesty, my parent never hold me back. I was very fortunate. My father is not only a soldier but also a boxer. My mother is a teacher, I am a second child. The oldest is a female, while I’m a oldest boy. I grew up in military, as a kid I hang around in military flat as a queer (laugh) became a girl...

So how did you get into Calypso Cabaret?
Then I met one of the senior who owns a clothing store for cabaret, that I frequent renting. He told me: “You’re skin is so dark, Just be a dark skinned showgirl” from this point I learned not to act sweet, act ‘white’, It’s like he hypnotized me into becoming Diana Ross…