The announcement had surprised his fans last summer: Christine and the Queens, who became Chris in 2018, changed his stage name again to become Redcar. The French artist, who is now male, explains the origin of this pseudonym in a long portrait published this Sunday by the guardiana few days after the release of his album Redcar: the lovely stars.
This new name is related to the sudden death of the interpreter’s mother, which occurred in 2019. At that time, then in full mourning, Redcar began to see more and more red cars, and decided to take them as a sign of the deceased. Then a few years later make it a stage name.
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He also returns to his transidentity, revealed in recent months. At the corner of a TikTok published in August, the interpreter of finally I see you announced that he now had the masculine gender. “I am trans,” she wrote on Twitter a few days ago. In the columns of the British magazine, she specifies that she refuses to have to modify his physical appearance:
“I am in resistance against the transidentity approach that wants there to be necessarily hormonal treatments and operations. It is complying with a binary system in which I do not believe. The binarity was created to control (…) I am sick of having to define myself with its grotesque tools of oppression. And I don’t owe anyone scars, to be precise.”
That’s why this coming out took time: “He was terrified that he would have to take action (change his appearance, editor’s note).” He says this view of trans identity has earned him criticism from some transgender people, who would like him to “present himself as a ‘real’ trans man. Who are we doing this for? We are all different. I know people who have thrived because to hormones (…) but I want to flourish in this contradiction (…) I don’t feel like I have to change anything about myself”.
The singer made a similar statement on Twitter a few days ago, adding: “We have existed since the beginning of time and what must change is society as a whole (…)”.
Redcar was going to give several concerts in September for his new show called Redcar: the lovable stars. All have been postponed to next week due to injury in rehearsals. His new album will be out on November 11.
Source: BFM TV
