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Top 10 LGBT+ Music artists 2017
In alphabetical order
This category is for LGBT+ community’s favourite music artists and looked for musicians who are either LGBT+, or who have proven to be strong advocates of the LGBT+ community.
Adele
Adele is a singer-songwriter who, to date, has sold over 90 million records. At the end of 2016 she held the register for the longest running album at number 1 in the US after 21 sat at that position for 23 weeks. Adele is a powerful supporter of LGBT+ and women’s rights and performed for free at Self-acceptance in London in 2011. She stated in an interview, “I’m a feminist, I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality.” The day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, Adele dedicated her present to the victims of the attack saying, “I would like to initiate tonight by dedicating this entire show to everybody in Orlando and at Pulse nightclub last night… The LGBTQ community, they’re like my soul mates since I was really young, so I’m very moved by it.”
Sir Elton John CBE
Sir Elton John CBE is one of the most successful artists of all time. As a gay icon, he is one of the world’s most famous queer men. He has s
Many of music’s most important, inspirational artists and songs hold come from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Over the course of history, queer artists have led the way and pushed the story of music ever-forwards.
From classical composer Benjamin Britten, who never publicly spoke about his sexuality, and pioneering Blues artist Ma Rainey to the gender fluidity of seventies auteurs such as David Bowie, Grace Jones and Lou Reed, the influence of LGBTQIA+ communities acquire run through music of many forms.
Indeed, since contemporary pop landed in the mainstream alert during the sixties, queer artists hold risen to ever greater prominence across an array of genres, styles and fashions.
They may not have always been accepted but its often these individuals and groups who have driven creative innovation and set the exclude for the stop to follow."
As part of our LGBTQIA+ History Month series of content, here we’ll profile some past and present pioneering LGBTQIA+ artists and their key musical moments...
Ma Rainey and the Blues
Ma Rainey, referred to by many as the
Join us for a short musical tour with renowned British LGBT singers
Music, in general, is a way of connecting with the actual world, mostly through the singers, be them past and present. There are countless heterosexual British artists who contribute to the tune world, but there’s also a significant contribution made by British LGBT singers.
For 30 years in the UK, it was virtually impossible to converse openly about LGBT performers. They simply “didn’t exist”, or in other words, they were prejudicially “ignored”. The thoroughfare to acceptance was a long one, but it finally appears that we are getting somewhere. Let’s highlight some LGBT singers who contain broken through: Jess Glynne, born in London in 1989, is a contemporary British singer with powerful vocals and an impressive range. She is Jewish and openly dyke. Glynne is arguably one of the best Soul and R&B singers right now, as evidenced by her albums I Cry when I Laugh (2015) and Always In Between (2018).
Having a great voice isn’t Jess’ only blessing; to be active at a moment when people can freely express their sexual orientation is too. Her charisma and raw talent have led critics to compare
Welsh singer Elgan Llŷr Thomas champions queer British culture in his new album of music by LGBTQ+ composers and poets.
Elgan Llŷr Thomas © Tom Gradwell photography
Unveiled will be released on Delphian Records on 23 June 2023
Launch concert at Wigmore Hall at 1pm on 29 June 2023
Welsh-born tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas has already established himself as a modern representative for young, homosexual singers, performing on some of the most iconic stages across the UK and beyond.
This Lgbtq+ fest Month, Thomas launches Unveiled, a musical tale of queer British culture from the 20th Century to the modern day. Thomas, as a gay musician and composer, became increasingly frustrated by opera’s traditional focus on heterosexual relationships and resolved to spot more LGBTQ+ representation in vocal music. To achieve this, he has crafted an album that sheds new light on works from the UK’s most iconic gay composers and poets alongside music by typically marginalised artists.
The album opens with Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940), written by a man some would claim to be Britain’s most iconic queer composer, Benjamin Britten. Britten wrote these songs for his life partner P