"Among the album's varied highlights: Teddy Geiger and Yaeji's dreamy folk-pop "Pink Ponies"; a rendition of Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" by Lauren Auder and Prince's old bandmates Wendy & Lisa; Allison Russell and Ahya Simone's take on "Any Other Way" by the trans pioneer Jackie Shane; and a spectral cover of Sylvester's late-'70s disco hit "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" by Moses Sumney and Sam Smith."
"Massima Bell - a musician, model and activist who helped assemble the project under the aegis of the Red Hot organization - thought of it as a crucial act of "archive-making" for one of society's most marginalized communities. "As a whole, trans people have not had the opportunity to really have our own historical understanding of who we are," Bell says. "It's something that's been literally stamped out over the course of the Western gender binary that emerged from the Victorian era.""
"Then there's Sade's "Young Lion," a tolling piano ballad in which the famous soul singer asks her son to forgive her for not recognizing his gender identity earlier than she did. "Young man, it's been so heavy for you / You must have felt so alone / The anguish and pain / I should have known," Sade sings in the song, which has been streamed more than 5 million times since "Transa" was released in November."
Transa is a compilation of 46 tracks by about 100 artists documenting trans and nonbinary experiences and allyship. Assembled under Red Hot, Massima Bell called the project archive-making to preserve histories erased by the Western gender binary. The album features collaborations and covers across genres, including Teddy Geiger and Yaeji's "Pink Ponies," Lauren Auder with Wendy & Lisa on Prince, Allison Russell and Ahya Simone on Jackie Shane's "Any Other Way," and Moses Sumney with Sam Smith on Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." Sade's "Young Lion," a piano ballad about delayed parental recognition of gender, has over five million streams. Participating artists will perform at the Getty Center.
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