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Beverly Glenn-Copeland (born 1944) is an American singer and songwriter. He has spent most of his life and career in Canada.[1] Glenn-Copeland began publicly identifying as a trans man in 2002.[2][3][4]

Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Born	1944 (age 77–78) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, new age, folk
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, musician, actor
Instrument(s)	Guitar, piano, synthesizer
Years active	1970–present
Labels	GRT, Atlast
Website	beverlyglenncopeland.com and www.songcycles.com

Early life

Glenn-Copeland was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a musical family.[5] As a child, Glenn-Copeland listened to his father play the music of Bach, Chopin, and Mozart on the piano, and heard his mother occasionally sing spirituals.[6]

In 1961, Glenn-Copeland was one of the first black students to study at McGill University in Montreal.[7]

In 1973, while in Los Angeles, Glenn fell in love with the chanting at a local Soka Gakkai International meeting and has been a practicing Buddhist since the mid-1970s.[8]

Musical career

Glenn-Copeland started his career as a folk singer incorporating jazz, classical, and blues elements.[9] He also performed on albums by Ken Friesen, Bruce Cockburn, Gene Murtynec, Bob Disalle, and Kathryn Moses,[9] and was a writer on Sesame Street.[10] He spent twenty-five years entertaining children as a regular actor on Canadian children's television show Mr. Dressup.[11]

Glenn-Copeland's 1986 electronic album Keyboard Fantasies, recorded using equipment including a Yamaha DX7 and a Roland TR-707,[12] and other recordings were rediscovered and promoted by a Japanese collector [13] in 2015.[14] Before Glenn-Copeland's gender transition was made public, "Keyboard Fantasies" was selected as one of the 70 greatest recordings by women by The Stranger.[15]

Other albums by Glenn-Copeland include Beverly Glenn Copeland (1970), Beverly Copeland (early 1970s), At Last! (1980), Primal Prayer (released under the pseudonym Phynix in 2004), and Transmissions (released in September 2020).[16][17]

Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, a documentary directed by Posy Dixon, was released in 2019.[18][19][20]

Planned 2020 international tours to Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European destinations were rescheduled to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A fundraising campaign was initiated to help Glenn-Copeland and his wife after the loss of their house that resulted from these changes; the campaign raised over $90,000.[21] In the same year, Glenn-Copeland created a prerecorded video performance of his song "Courage" for Buddies in Bad Times and CBC Gem's online Queer Pride Inside show.[22]

The Keyboard Fantasies album was named as the public vote winner of the Polaris Heritage Prize at the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.[23]

References

Further reading

• Honored onscreen and in sound, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a messenger whose time is now. McCabe, Allyson, November 29, 2021 NPR

External links

• Official website

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[de] B. Glenn-Copeland

B. Glenn-Copeland (* 1944 in Philadelphia) ist ein amerikanisch-kanadischer Singer-Songwriter und Filmkomponist, der sich stilistisch zwischen Jazz-, Folk-, Blues- und Popmusik bewegt und zeitweilig unter dem Namen Phynix auftrat.

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