Historica Canada released her story as the latest in its ongoing series of minute-long shorts celebrating influential figures and accomplishments in Canadian history.
The Canadian PressThe late transgender soul singer Jackie Shane is the focus of a new Heritage Minute, as shown in this handout image. Historica Canada issued her story as the latest in its ongoing series of minute-long shorts celebrating influential figures and accomplishments in Canadian history.
Shane, who was born in Nashville but thrived in the Canadian R&B music scene, was selected for her contributions to "the Toronto sound," a version of electric soul shaped in the early 1960s. But she's also considered a trans pioneer at a time when few held visible positions in the local community. She performed on stage as an androgynous man, but in her private life had come out as trans to her mother when she was 13 years old.Shane played clubs in Montreal and Boston, but her home was at Toronto's Saphire Tavern until she suddenly quit music in 1971.
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