Life of Agony Frontwoman Says She Feels “Better Than Ever” After Coming Out

Life of Agony frontwoman Mina Caputo (formerly Keith Caputo), discussed with France’s Loud TV her transition from frontman to frontwoman and the impact it’s had on her experience with the band, as well as the motivation behind Life of Agony’s “A New Place Where There’s No More Pain,”

Mina: "We were offered a couple of labels, offered some really good deals. We weren't really looking to make a record, not right now anyway. We were just enjoying being out there in the world and catching up on a lot of lost time that we missed with one another. I had been through some changes the past ten years; all the boys had children. We do all different kind of creative things. Alan [Robert, bass] has his coloring books that are on top of the world right now. His comic books, I'm doing my solo music and different musical projects. We were all doing live gigs. We really enjoyed this time around, the past few years, having a great time, a lot of fun. We fired many people, we keep it really small now, just really close with the band. We got some offers and when we started getting some offers, we started kicking around some ideas and one thing led to another, a year and change later, 'A Place Where There's No More Pain' was born.



"I think the motivation, really, was to make up for lost time. I could say that personally, for me, it was the album to make amends with my brothers, with my family, for all the trouble I've caused them throughout all the years. [Laughs] For me, that's the heart of it. Plus, I love the band, I love the songs that they write, I love singing for them and being with them. They're my biggest allies and my biggest friends. We're enjoying each other's company more than we ever have in our lives, so why not take advantage of really good times while it lasts? Because life is fleeting; life goes by so quick."

Mina went on to discuss her coming out in 2017.

Mina: "I'm living my life the way I always intended it to be, but didn't have the strength or the courage to let the lady out. Now that I have and I'm transitioning almost ten years now, I became an old lady real fast. [Laughs] It's a cruel world. I'm not going to let the cruel world stop me from being me. I don't give a fuck who likes it, who doesn't, I'm not here to please people. If you don't understand, then fuck off. I don't care if you don't like people like me or whatever, you don't understand it because you can't look deeply within your own self. Those are usually the people that dislike people that follow their dreams. I'm just going after my dreams. One dream after the other, I'm living it. That's the purpose of my life. I live my dreams and one of my dreams was to honor the feminine. I'm just a woman born without a uterus. I don't have the tools. I don't have the physical 'down there' to give birth, that's all. I'm no different than any other girl on the street. In my personal view, if you really knew who I was intimately, I think people would say the same."

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Lindsay OConnor     April 22, 2017