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Inside the Shocking Documentary That Found Long Lost Trans Singer Jackie Shane
Trans soul singer Jackie Shane disappeared in 1971, but the documentary 'Any Other Way' reclaims her legacy. Co-director Michael Mabbott on the film.
“This is a woman who disappeared off the face of the earth for 45 years and nobody knew if she was alive or dead,” says Michael Mabbott, co-director of the forthcoming documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. Co-directed by Mabbott along with Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and co-produced by Elliot Page, it brushes away the dust and traces Shane’s stunning rise as a trans singer during an inhospitable period. Shane, a native of the American South before moving to Toronto to escape the suffocating effects of Jim Crow, subsequently made waves with a song that inspired the film’s name, the breezy horn- and drum-fueled “Any Other Way.” Along with landing on Billboard ’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, it became a hit in Canada in 1962.
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