Northbrook native Jordy is bringing ‘cool boy summer’ to Northalsted Market Days

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<p>Jordy has a confession to make. </p><p>“Honestly, this will be my first Market Days,” he said ahead of the long-running Northalsted/Lake View street festival, which he headlines on Sunday.</p><p>Although the 31-year-old GLAAD and Queerties-nominated singer/songwriter, born Jordan Shulman, grew up in Northbrook, he “never really lived in Chicago as an adult." He left for college, majoring in English at Boston University, followed by a move to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue his dreams of becoming a bona fide pop artist.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-cf0000" name="image-cf0000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4566352/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a9ee2f2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f841111/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="JORDY sits at Senior Citizens Memorial Park in Bucktown, Thursday, August. " srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f841111/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2247c0a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f841111/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6401x3592+0+337/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ffb%2F08%2F76226f534b1e91736cccb78bae2a%2Fjordy-260808-7.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>“Early in my career, I kept hearing this word ‘pigeonhole,’ like, ‘don’t pigeonhole yourself as the gay artist,’ but that thought hasn’t crossed my mind once,” Jordy said. “At the end of the day, I’m an openly gay man who is very upfront about that in my music.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong/Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-a80000" name="module-a80000"></a> <div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3>Jordy </h3><br><b>When:</b> 9 p.m., Aug 9<br><b>Where:</b> Northalsted Market Days, Halsted Street from Belmont Avenue to Addison Street<br><b>Tickets:</b> $20 suggested donation<br><b>Info:</b> <a class="Link" href="https://northalsted.com/" target="_blank" >northalsted.com</a></div> </div><p>That goal was met in 2019 with his breakout hit “Just Friends” and reached a fever pitch in 2023 with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/4/17/23685725/jordy-story-of-a-boy-song-northbrook-absolutely-girl-kim-petras-nine-days-john-hampson-lollapalooza" target="_blank" >“Story of a Boy,”</a> where Shulman reinterprets the lyrics of rock band Nine Days’ Y2K hit “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)” through a queer lens.

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