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A striking black-and-white photo of the seminal trans-rights activist and Stonewall uprising leader Marsha P. Johnson adorns the cover of ANOHINI’s second studio album. The English singer – who is also trans and a friend of Johnson’s before her death – is pouring all the power and grace available in her sweepingly soulful voice into creating a magnificent pulsecheck on the realities of being a transgender woman, suggesting it’s a world at odds with the now glitzy Pride parade. And truly, what a voice. Reminiscent of Alabama Shakes’s Brittney Howard, she stops you in your tracks.
Also out now: Rita Ora, You & I; Kool & the Gang, People Just Wanna Have Fun; Claud, Supermodels and PVRIS, EVERGREEN
Photograph Michael Svenningsen/ AFP via Getty Images
