YES!! I AM A LESBIAN: Legend Diana King’s coming out announcement + how she proposed to her girlfriend

Most people know Diana King from her chart topping hits in the 90′s including ‘Shy Guy’ and a remake of Dionne Warwick’s ”Say a Prayer”. However, these days, she is respected as the first Jamaican star to come out as gay. Since her reign in the 90′s, the reclusive but ageless reggae and dancehall maven does not look ready to stop at 43. In 2012, before the wave of celebrities coming out as LGBTs, Diana King made her announcement via an intimate but lengthy Facebook post to her fans. HERE

In the long note, the dancehall star agrees that the question she gets asked indirectly the most concerns her sexuality. She goes on to admit that she is not ashamed of her status
I answer now, not because it’s anyone’s business BUT because IT FEELS RIGHT WITH my SOUL and I believe by not answering or hiding it all these years somehow makes it appear as if I AM ASHAMED OF IT or THAT I BELIEVE IT IS WRONG. I FEEL NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS
After her public announcement, Ms King has moved ahead in pushing for rights of LGBTs and performed at the Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, the world’s largest lesbian event. Which according to a 2013 interview was a dream come true.In 2013, Diana King finally proposed to her longtime girlfriend Simone who accompanied her to her current visit in Nigeria where she is collaborating with Nigerian R&B act Praiz.

At the Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend

Diana King tells SheWired how she proposed to her longtime girlfriend:
So, I secretly flew to Jamaica. When I knocked on the door, she was so shocked and in disbelief that she took off running away from me. I had told her repeatedly that I didn’t want a committed relationship, and she had been trying to call me the whole day, without success, so you can imagine that she was really pissed by this time. When I finally found her in the bedroom, covering her face, crying on the bed, I picked her up and hugged her. I went down on my knees and began reading a letter I had written, but I got all choked up, so I handed it to her and asked her to read it. By the end of the verse, I was asking her to marry me, to “jam by my side for the whole ride.” We were both crying by then. Then I stood up, held her and kissed her, and the ring was transferred from my mouth to hers.

With the love of her life Simone

With her fans at the Dinah Shore weekend

Diana has been in Lagos, Nigeria for a few days in the company of her girlfriend Simone

Simone stands by the extreme left, Nelson Ononiwu and Diana King follow

Diana King is currently in Nigeria to record and promote the remix to ”Mercy” by Praiz in which she features. She has been on a full media tour and has also visited the office of telecommunications giant MTN with her full glamorous afro.