🎶Non-Binary Musicians🎶
SAM SMITH
Sam Smith was born on the 19th of May, 1992, in London. During their time in school, Smith was part of jazz bands and musical theatre clubs. They released their first two singles in 2008 and 2009, but it wasn’t until they featured on Latch by electronic duo Disclosure that they found mainstream success. In 2015 Smith and their friend Jimmy Napes released “Writing’s on the Wall” - the theme song to the 24th James Bond film, Spectre: it was the first Bond theme to reach number 1 on the charts. In 2017, Smith came out as Genderqueer saying “I feel just as much a woman as I am a man,” and in 2019 this evolved to them identifying as non-binary and taking up they/them pronouns.
KING PRINCESS
Mikaela Mullaney Straus was born on the 19th of December, 1998, in Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised. Her father was a recording engineer so she spent a lot of her childhood in his recording studio learning to play instruments. At 11 she was approached by a music label for the first time, but she turned the offer down as she wanted to work out what kind of music she wanted to make before signing anything. In 2018 she released her debut single “1950” - a tribute to the LGBT community and queer love - under the name King Princess. Straus is gay and genderqueer, saying that she is “somebody who falls centre on the gender spectrum, and it changes day to day.”
SIR BABYGIRL
Kelsie Hogue was born in Palo Alto, California, and raised in New Hampshire. He learned about song writing during an elective at middle school. She applied for New York University’s musical theatre program but didn't get in, instead studying Drama at Boston University. While in Boston, he started playing more music falling for pop punk and electronic sounds, as well as developing the persona of Sir Babygirl online. In 2019 she released her first album, Crush on Me, which he had been writing and producing in his bedroom since 2016. As someone who identifies as bisexual and non-binary (preferring he/she pronouns), she wanted to write songs that tell queer stories.
LEFT AT LONDON
Nat Puff was born on the 18th of June, 1996. She’s a non-binary trans woman, and uses she/her pronouns. In 5th grade she started writing songs, and her first three EPs were released in 2018 while she was still in high school. Left At London was a title originally meant for a band, but after those plans fell through Puff continued to perform under the name as she didn’t feel comfortable using her legal one. Her fourth and fifth EPs released in 2018, and it was with the later that Puff had her breakthrough with the song “Revolution Lover.” Her first studio album came out on the 4th of June 2021. Puff has been outspoken about the mental disorders she’s faced in her life, and her second album, You Are Not Alone Enough, will be themed around her struggles
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