Grayson Perry a transvestite. At the age of 15 he moved in with his father's family in Chelmsford, where he began to go out dressed as a woman. When he was discovered by his father he said he would stop but his stepmother told everyone about it and a few months later threw him out. He returned to his mother and stepfather at Great Bardfield. Perry frequently appears in public dressed as a woman, and he has described his female alter-ego, "Claire", variously as "a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for "No More Art", an aero-model-maker, or an Eastern European
Alter Ego (Peruvian band) together with personal problems forced Oganes to split the band and put it on stand-by. Regardless of member intents to get together, Oganes kept out of the picture and the band never really reunited again as he holds the copyrights for the name and songs. He never declared the band officially terminated and the question of a new comeback was held in suspense for some time until recently when he declared the intention to form a new line-up for Alter Ego. The side-projects of Juan Carlos Oganes kept him busy over the years but he remained close to the music