A quick glance at any part of Colby's online presence reveals her primary passion: burlesque. As Dannie Diesel, she performs with a shimmering wardrobe of gowns, gloves, and props. She's backed by her band, Gin Rummy, with whom she has traveled the country. Her love of burlesque extends into memorabilia as well — the Pickers star owns stage costumes worn by legends including Lillie Langtry, Josephine Baker, and even something from the infamous Mata Hari's vaults.
While Colby's love of burlesque stems in part from an appreciate for glitz and glamour, it's an ideological pursuit as well. "A lot of people are very nipped and tucked in the striptease industry," she remarked, "so to go out there with a natural body and try to make people emote with you and laugh and enjoy a moment where everybody feels a little vulnerable, that's the appeal." She is who she is — someone, she notes pointedly, who is in her fourth decade of life and has had two children — and she's willing to bare it all in order to make a connection with the audience, celebrate the human body, and have some fun... and, occasionally, to collect the legendary outfits of wartime spies.
