If there’s one thing adolescent drama classes and the Black church have in common, it’s a shared ability to teach participants how to take up space. Combine early immersion into these institutions with being the child of music industry professionals, and you get queer R&B artist Durand Bernarr, the illustrious Cleveland-born singer, songwriter and performer whose creative breadth is just as pliable as his acrobatic vocals. “Church and theater, I like to say, are parts of the artist's development,” Bernarr, 36, tells Boulder Weekly. Bloom, the third album by Cleveland R&B artist Durand Bernarr, was released Feb. 18. “It's like, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that was empty.’”ON THE BILL: Durand Bernarr with Shae Universe.