#trans singers

[storyweavingspider]

*pulls up a stool and squats down on it*

Now what y’all know bout THIS (a new DC local Black trans artist and one of the smoothest joints I’ve heard in a minute)

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[transcountertenor]

In other news, I sang tenor for the first time last night. I talked to my choir director about it, and she agreed to let me try it out for our next concert. There are two choirs I'm in, the treble and mixed choirs, so I still get to get my fill of singing soprano in the treble while stretching my low range in the mixed.

I immediately fell in love. I bottom out around F3 right now (pre-T, still), but the pieces we're doing almost never go lower than that. I thought I wouldn't be able to sight-read as easily or it wouldn't be as satisfying as singing soprano but I am SO happy to be wrong. I LOVED singing in the middle of chords and feeling my voice rumbling in my chest. It's exciting and novel and it made me feel like I was falling in love with choral singing all over again.

My best trans girl friend also sings tenor in that choir, and my fiancé sings baritone, so I was grateful to get to sit between them. I'm usually pretty quiet and serious in choral rehearsals but we had so much fun sitting together. Even just being on the other side of the room for once felt like my whole world was different.

It's silly sometimes how big the small things are and how small the big things are. I thought I could only ever be a soprano. That was my lot. I was good at it and I'd never done anything else so I could never be anything else. Then one day I try something new and I realize it's not that different. I still know how to read music, I still know how to sing, it still feels good. Even better in some ways. But what felt momentously different was how much I felt like I belonged there. My voice didn't stick out nearly as much as I thought it would. I still know how to blend to the voices around me. Even just responding to "tenors" or "tenors and basses" rather than to "sopranos" or "sopranos and altos" felt like I finally was where I always wanted to be. Being surrounded by my loved ones helped of course, but I just felt... welcome there.

I am filled with hope today. I really think I can do this. I think I'm ready for whatever happens come May. Testosterone, please let me be a tenor. I found where I want to be.

[blackqueernotables]

Shea Diamond: singer, songwriter, and transgender activist

[emotionalmoss]

testosterone hrt doesn’t ruin singing voices btw. cis dudes’ voices change and (fucking obviously) plenty of cis men are singers??? sure, T changes your vocal cords and the way your voice sounds/feels, but these are changes that you can work to adjust to. yet i know that as with any adjustment, it can seem easier to stop once change occurs. like i know when my voice drops and changes, i’m gonna sing through it, but for a bit i’m gonna be like “ew my voice keeps cracking mid note :(” but yk what? that will NOT discourage me from singing. if you sing through it - voice breaking and cracking and weird shifts and voice drops out of nowhere - you wind up with something beautiful! so, singers on testosterone hrt or even just singers going through puberty, sing through voice drops and voice changes.

p.s. i find that many singers on T, especially singers who have grown somewhat used to their pre-T singing voice, stop singing because it can be difficult to sing around voice changes. and then when they start again, their voices are not only tonally and pitch-wise different, but out of use. if you stop singing for a long period of time - and this doesn’t just go for hrt, it’s applicable in literally all cases - your voice is going to be rusty and not sound all that great once you start again.

[dreamstates-music]

We are proud to say that DreamStates' 8th album has a release date: get ready for DiscoNeck on December 8th!

[thatwitchrevan]

Trans singers whose voices have changed throughout their career 💞💞💞 trans singers who have kept their voice the same 💞💞💞 trans singers who have a WIDE vocal range and use it 💞💞💞 trans singers who have a very high or very deep voice 💞💞💞 trans singers who have a mid-range or androgynous voice 💞💞💞 trans singers expressing themselves through their voice 💞💞💞 trans singers 💞💞💞

[rojo-todd]

Little practice on ABBA’s “The Winner Takes it All”

(He/They)

[mergaliscious]

Y'all, now that rehearsals are over and I'll have time to record (hopefully), would you rather me do more covers or more originals?