Finding a New Voice: Indigenous, Francophone, Queer, Songster Grey Gritt vies for Indigenous Music Award
Listening to Grey Gritt now, one may notice a different sound compared to their album Live at the NACC, which is up for an Indigenous Music Award on Friday.
That’s because Gritt’s voice is growing deeper, as the Yellowknife blues-folk musician — who identifies as transgender — has been taking testosterone over the past year.
“I feel like I’m getting to know my new voice, and it’s scary and exciting,” said Gritt, who is also one half of the Juno Award-winning duo Quantum Tangle.
Gritt said being busy with Quantum Tangle has meant less solo work for now, but added that working in a duo has been helpful during the vocal transformation.
“There’s a lot of fear with deciding to take hormones, and one of it being that your voice changes permanently,” Gritt explained.
“One of the reasons why I think … I focused on Quantum Tangle is that you’re sharing the attention and you’re sharing the performance, so it was also like, ‘Hey, if I can’t quite sing for a little while in the same way, we can modify our show together so that it can accommodate for my vocal change.’”
Testosterone and the Trans Male Singing Voice >
(Source: cbc.ca)
