Mitzi Mozzarella

Mitzi Mozzarella (born April 9, 1970) is an American musician, rapper, and experimental filmmaker. Born in Miami, Florida, at age 13 she performed with the Rock-afire Explosion on their first album, Gee, Our First Album, and became a steady member of the group. The band began worrying about her after she was diagnosed with AIDS in 1996; leading to her releasing her first solo album, a rap album named Bi-Lady.

History
Mitzi was born in April 1970 to Mini Mozzarella, a popular local nightclub singer, and Robert Mozzarella, a firefighter, at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida.

When she was 12 and had just left Southwood Middle School, she had acquired a 1965 Crucianelli Spazial electric guitar and, to tape her music, purchased a top loading stereo cassette deck with money earned from selling lemonade in the parking lot of a local K-Mart.

She quietly came out as bisexual to Beach Bear in 1984, becoming the first member of the band to do so.