Occupation Television personality | Parents Jack Diamond | |
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Full Name Jacqueline Diamond Born December 21, 1947 Manhattan, New York, U.S Died 1 March 2016, Rochelle Park, New Jersey, United States | ||
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Coca Crystal (December 21, 1947 – March 1, 2016) was an American television personality and political activist. She was best known for her weekly cable-access variety show The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can’t Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution, which ran from 1977 to 1995.
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Biography
Born as Jacqueline Diamond on December 21, 1947, to Jack Diamond, owner of J. Diamond Furs and Rita Dunn, a former fur model. She was born in Manhattan and raised in Mamaroneck.
Starting in 1969, she was a contributor to the East Village Other (EVO) and the name Coca Crystal was created as her pen name. She would write about politics, women’s issues and personal events, many of which earned her the title "slumgoddess".
Her cable-access, weekly variety show television show The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can’t Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution would always start out with lighting a joint, oftentimes she would be pulling the joint from a flower pot and then smoking it. She would talk about protests, anti-nuke activism, local and world news with special segment called Newborn News and invite a wide variety of guests. Some guests on her show include; Philip Glass, Debbie Harry, Abbie Hoffman, Judith Malina, Cesar Chavez, and Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs. One of her guests, Glenn O'Brien went on to host his own long running public-access television show, TV Party after he appearing on Coca's show.
In 2013, a play written, via interview with Coca Crystal and titled If I Can't Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution: The Coca Crystal Story was performed by Danielle Quisenberry. The play was shown at Emerging Artists Theatre, TADA! Theater, and part of the East Village Theater Festival at Metropolitan Playhouse in New York City.
Crystal died of respiratory failure on March 1, 2016 in Rochelle Park, New Jersey at age 68. In 2006 she was diagnosed with lung cancer and had struggled with many treatments prior to her passing.