Sade Returns After 6 Years With New Song On ‘Transa’ Album For Transgender Awareness, Dedicates It To Her Trans Son
By Jahaura Michelle,
2024-09-05
Sade is returning to music with a new track on the Transa benefit album for transgender awareness. This release marks her first in over six years and will be part of a 46-track compilation debuting this fall.
According to Variety, the legendary singer-songwriter will release “Young Lion” on Nov. 22 as part of the extensive project spearheaded by the nonprofit Red Hot to support members of the LGBTQ+ community, including non-binary, genderqueer, cisgender and other individuals.
“We started talking about all the gifts that trans artists have been giving to the world, and wanted to create a Red Hot project that centered and celebrated those gifts,” Red Hot Executive Director Dustin Reid said in a news release obtained by Variety. “We hoped to create a narrative that positions trans and non-binary people as leaders in our society insofar as the deep inner work they do to affirm who they are in our current climate. We felt this is something everybody should do. Whether you identify as trans or non-binary or otherwise, if you took the time to explore your gender, get in touch with the feeling side of yourself, maybe we would have a future oriented around values of community, collaboration, care, and healing.”
“Young Lion” is dedicated to Sade’s son, Izaak, who identifies as a transgender man. The New York Times reported that the song features soft piano notes paired with Sade’s soulful vocals, with lyrics “steeped in empathy and regret.” In the track, Sade sings, ‘Young man, it’s been so heavy for you/ You must have felt so alone… I should have known/ Shine like a sun/ You have everything you need.”
Transgender musician, model and activist Massima Bell expressed excitement about Sade’s involvement in the project, which started in collaboration with Reid in 2021.
“It’s amazing to hear a legendary musician like Sade sing about her heartfelt experience as the parent of a trans child,” Bell told the Times.
Blavity reported that Sade’s last album was 2010’s Soldier of Love , debuting atop the Billboard’s 200 albums chart . However, she has released several singles since the iconic project.
Sade joins more than 100 artists on the new album, with a mix of covers and exclusive tracks from “Sam Smith, Laura Jane Grace, Devendra Banhart, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Bartees Strange, Faye Webster, Julien Baker, Moses Sumney, Hunter Schafer, André 3000, Arthur Baker, Fleet Foxes, Teddy Geiger and many more,” per Billboard .
Here is the complete track list for the Transa album.
Chapter 1 — Womb of the Soul
1. “Midnight Moon Pool” – Mary Lattimore, Laraaji, MIZU and Jamal Shakeri
Such a shame. I was looking forward to her release, but no more.
alice may
09-06
I say to all the hate in the comments to rot in he'll for relying on sin to guide your path of wrath and sorrow, I hope you one day see your mistreatment of others and hope one day you see your darkness and repent on your actions, anymore darkness be cursed to only see he'll, never to see the gates of heaven.
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