The musician is set to release ‘Young Lion’ as part of the ‘Transa’ benefit album, which will arrive on November 22. It’s the first new music from the musician since a soundtrack offering in 2018.
The project has been assembled by non-profit Red Hot, on what aims to support transgender awareness and spotlight both trans and non-binary artists. As per Variety, ‘Young Lion’ is dedicated to Sade’s son Izaak, who identifies as a transgender man.
Dust Reid, who put the compilation project together alongside artists Massima Bell, said: “We started talking about all the gifts that trans artists have been giving to the world, and wanted to create a Red Hot project that centered and celebrated those gifts.
Sade has been recording new music at Brad Pitt and Damien Quintard’s newly reopened Miraval Studios in Correns, France.
“You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place,” French producer and composer Damien Quintard, Miraval co-owner and operator, said of Sade and her band, the first artists to record in the iconic studio since its reopening after being shuttered for more than 20 years. (Americansongwriter)
The new music is Sade’s first since their 2010 album, Soldier of Love, and 2018 single, “Flower of the Universe,” which was featured on the soundtrack of the adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time as well as the “The Big Unknown” for the soundtrack of the Steve McQueen-directed Widows.
The news was revealed yesterday (October 10) in a Billboard cover story in which both Pitt and Quintard were interviewed, with the pair sharing that Sade have visited Miraval Studios in the time since its renovation.
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