Divine

New Line Cinema · Over the Knee Project (Direct link). Originally published as a publicity photo (see "other versions" below). · Public domain
- Full name
- Harris Glenn Milstead.
- Born
- 1945. · Baltimore.
- Died
- 1988. · Los Angeles.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- actor, singer, musician and screenwriter.
- Fields
- pop music and Hi-NRG.
- Education
- Towson High School.
- Languages
- English.
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gnd · 10322097-5 · wikidata · Q357786
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Life and career
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Life and career
Explore 1945–1988
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1945
Born at Baltimore.
1988
Dies at Los Angeles.
1988
Divine died in 1988 at Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles.
Residences
Baltimore.
Birth place
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 22 further compositions are catalogued under Divine's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. Show Me Around.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Walk Like a Man
T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans
I'm So Beautiful
Shoot Your Shot
Native Love (Step by Step)
Give It Up
Twistin’ the Night Away
You Think You're a Man
Shake It Up
Shout It Out
Kick Your Butt
Catalogued output
Writings on music
These are catalogued publications carrying the name — editions and printings, distinct from the works they contain and from writing about the subject. The run opens with American Foreign Policy and closes with Daddy, What Is Love and What Does Love Look Like? The 1990s are the densest part of the run, with 21 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
28 editions carry dates between 1974 and 2023
The entries follow Open Library
En Estado de Felicidad yo decido existir
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here is a record of how Divine's music has been published, not of what Divine composed. 32 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1982 to 2024. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. 15 issues were published within the subject's lifetime and 17 after 1988, so the greater part of this record is the work of later performers, editors and labels. The 1980s are the densest decade of publication, with 17 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10322097-5, Divine.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q357786: Divine
General reference · Wikidata
Authority records
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authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 10322097-5, Divine.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Studied at
1- Towson High SchoolOrganisation
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
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