Roland Beach

Happy Trans Music Tuesday! This week’s artist is Lucas Silveira. He made history in 2006 as the first out trans man to be signed to a major label with his rock band The Cliks. In the years since, he has made more music with the Cliks (both before and after he started T in 2010), and gone independent as a solo artist. I listened to his solo album “The Goddamn Flowers” on repeat in the nerve-wracking early days of my voice change, and found it super reassuring.

In addition to leading by example, Silveira directly mentors trans and non-binary music artists through the Toronto-based “Transcendence In Sound” program.

Here’s the Cliks’ groovy single “Savanna”:

The Cliks - Savanna - Official Music Video- Directed by The Young Astronauts. Song written by Lucas Silveira & Hill KourkoutisProduced by Hill KourkoutisMixed by Barb Morrison & Hillary JohnsonMastered...