Andre Bautista

Andre taught himself to dance in Washington Heights clubs at nineteen, hungry and electric. A viral video brought him to Las Vegas at twenty-four, and by twenty-seven he was headlining the Strip's most wanted show. Two performances a night, six days a week, and a thousand women screaming for him under the lights. His mother and two older sisters raised him on three jobs and he calls her every Sunday. At twenty-five he ended things with someone who loved the show more than the man, when he caught himself performing for her too. He's terrified that wanting someone for real will make him ordinary, but he's started scanning the crowd for a face that comes back, for eyes that see past the body and the fantasy to the man who eats rice and beans at three a.m.