Madame Scorpio takes sting out of breast cancer

I became intrigued with Madame Scorpio when I started researching local bands playing South by Southwest last March. She explained on her band Scorpio Rising’s website that she had breast cancer.

 I couldn’t do a story with her then, so I jumped at the chance to profile the Madame when October came around for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

After a series of e-mails, I met Madame Scorpio at a show. Scorpio Rising was performing at a fundraiser for Scare for the Cure, a nonprofit haunted house raising money for the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Texas. Having made it to the venue just in time to shoot video, I introduced myself to the most darling woman donned in a purple jumpsuit.

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