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June 09, 2017 by Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films

Real Boy is the portrait of Bennett, who is undergoing gender reassignment surgery, and his mom’s struggle to process the change, but it’s also the portrait of a young musician (Bennett) who is mentored by the more experienced folk singer Joe Stevens (who is also trans and been through a lot of ups and downs himself). In other words, it’s a coming of age film, a coming out film, but also a story of music. Bennett and Joe are complex human beings who find common ground not just in being trans but in their love of music.

It’s no surprise, then, to find trans artists making a fascinating variety of music. Here are just 12 such artists, from fresh new voices to critically acclaimed virtuosos.

Artist: Anohni

Song: “Drone Bomb Me”

Artist: Anohni (F.K.A. Antony, and J. Ralph)

Song: “Manta Ray”

Born in England as Antony Hegarty, and once lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, Anohni has a remarkably unique and transplendent voice. Her song with J. Ralph, “Manta Ray,” for the documentary film Racing Extinction, was nominated for an Oscar, who considered herself the first (actually the second) transgender performer ever to have been nominated for an Academy Award. But she decided not to attend the ceremony after discovering the show’s producers (for various reasons) had no intention of letting her perform it on stage.

Separate from that story, is the story of Anohni’s amazing voice, above all else.

Read more:

“Anohni, the artist once known as Antony Hegarty, on life beyond the Johnsons“

Artist: She King

She King is the stage name of Shawnee Talbot, an aboriginal “Two Spirit” Canadian (Mohawk First Nation) pop singer and songwriter.

Song: “Mirror Me”

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She “writes stellar pop songs with big hooks, polished production and plenty of vocal power. It came as no surprise to learn that She King’s recent accomplishments include being invited to tour with Roxette and Glass Tiger and asked to record a song for a show that’ll soon air on The Disney Channel,” says AutoStraddle, a GLAAD Award-winning Canadian site, which also included She King on this list of 12 Incredible Indigenous LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People You Should Know.

Artist: Ezra Furman

Song: “Restless Year”

Singer-songwriter Ezra Furman, whose work has elements of Jonathan Richman and Weezer, considers himself gender-fluid, not transgender, and, after his Catholic-raised mother converted to Judaism and he followed suit, “an observant Jew.” In this first-person piece for the Guardian, Furman writes about a seminal influence on his work, and on coming to terms with who he is.

“Looking back, I realise how primed I was to fall in love with Lou Reed and the Velvets. I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn’t get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn’t interested in having to follow.”

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Artist: Audrey Zee Whitesides/Little Waist

Song: “(I Wanna Be A) Dyke Wife”

Whitesides fronts emotional punk/singer-songwriter trio Little Waist and folk solo project Audrey Otherway, and has been or currently is in several other queer bands, including Mal Blum, April Mei, and Worriers. “She’s a poet, a big nerd, and a fan of crying,” she says in her bio.

“Fronted by Audrey Zee Whitesides, Brooklyn-based queercore-transcore trio Little Waist strikes a revolutionary chord with this raw, blistering track about queer domestic bliss.”-The Advocate

Artist: Laura Jane Grace and Against Me!

Song: “Black Me Out”

Leader of the Florida punk rock group Against Me!, Grace publicly came out as transgender in 2012. “Her deeply personal songs about gender identity on 2014’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues provided for the band’s most impassioned effort to date. And this perceptiveness stretches through the band’s entire discography. Against Me! is one of the premier punk groups of the past ten years and only shows signs of improving.”-What Culture

Artist: Shea Diamond

Song: “I’d Love to Change the World”

New to the music world, Shea Diamond‘s story is a powerful one reflected in the strength and urgent inspiration in her soulful single “I Am Her” and in her gorgeously evocative cover of the song “I’d Love to Change the World,” which was used for ABC’s LGBTQ rights miniseries When I Rise:

“A New Yorker via Flint, MI, the new musician says she was born into a gender role that she did not accept, so Diamond ran away from home as a teen, ultimately ending up incarcerated for ten years—where she discovered others of trans experience who helped her find her voice.”-Time magazine

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Artist: Mina Caputo (band: Life of Agony)

Song: “Got Monsters”

“Becoming one of the first openly trans women in heavy metal when she came out in 2011, Mina Caputo is the founder and lead singer of legendary band Life of Agony. Despite some initial backlash from some in the metal community, she has since been widely embraced, with Life of Agony reuniting in 2014 to sold-out shows, and Caputo joining Laura Jane Grace on an acoustic tour.”-Advocate

Here’s her solo song, the powerful “Got Monsters (I No Longer Exist),” in which she sings “Was born a monster/Do you hide your monsters, too?”

Read more:

The Advocate: “Agony and Ecstasy” (Heavy Metal Rocker Comes Out as Transgender)

Artist: Black Cracker

Song: “The Sun Is in My Face”

Black Cracker is an influential American MC, producer and a poet now living in Berlin, who describes himself on his site as “Not one to stay put or be pigeon-holed in a time which revels in classifyi