Nashville Native - Jackie Shane
Jackie Shane (1940-2019), was one of the first transgender people in popular music. Born in a man's body, she was the first artist to choose to live openly as a woman. This at a time when the living space for black people in the United States was extremely limited: makeup and tight dresses could have taken her life. Vowing to escape the Jim Crow South, in the late 1950s, Shane joined a traveling carnival and arrived in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1959, relocated to Toronto two years later. Shane's first issued recording was "Any Other Way" (with the B-side "Sticks and Stones") in the fall of 1962; the song became her biggest chart hit, reaching No. 2 on Toronto's CHUM Chart in 1963. The documentary film "Any Other Way - The Jackie Shane Story" was released in 2024.
- Runtime
- 21m
- Released
- 2026
Details
Release year: 2026
Storyline
Jackie Shane (1940-2019), was one of the first transgender people in popular music. Born in a man's body, she was the first artist to choose to live openly as a woman. This at a time when the living space for black people in the United States was extremely limited: makeup and tight dresses could have taken her life. Vowing to escape the Jim Crow South, in the late 1950s, Shane joined a traveling carnival and arrived in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1959, relocated to Toronto two years later. Shane's first issued recording was "Any Other Way" (with the B-side "Sticks and Stones") in the fall of 1962; the song became her biggest chart hit, reaching No. 2 on Toronto's CHUM Chart in 1963. The documentary film "Any Other Way - The Jackie Shane Story" was released in 2024.
Top credits
- Danielle Ledbetter — Self - Reporter
- Jackie Shane — Self
- Michael Mabbott — Self - Filmmaker
- Lucah Rosenberg-Lee — Self - Filmmaker