Shea Diamond
Shea Diamond is a singer and songwriter who makes soul-rooted music of resistance and liberation. Based in New York City, she was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and spent portions of her upbringing in Memphis, Tennessee and Flint, Michigan. Repressed and marginalized throughout her childhood for not accepting her gender role, she ran away at the age of 14 and entered foster care. Upon her emancipation, she lacked the means to pay for gender reassignment surgery, committed armed robbery, and spent roughly a decade in prison. While incarcerated, she developed her powerful singing style and forthright approach to songwriting.
Shea was released from prison in 2009 and relocated to New York. She continued to work on music and became deeply involved in the transgender rights movement. A clip of her performing an original song titled "I Am Her," a gutbucket blues-soul anthem for outsiders, impressed songwriter/producer Justin Tranter (Imagine Dragons' "Believer," Selena Gomez's "Bad Liar"), which led to a deal with the Warner-distributed Asylum label. In October 2016, a studio version of "I Am Her" became her commercial debut release. The flirtatious, anti-colorism single "Keisha Complex" followed in April 2018 as a prelude to Seen It All, an EP executive produced and partly written by Tranter.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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I Am America
Alternative en Indie - Released by East West Records LLC on 23 apr. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stand Up
Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds
Alternative en Indie - Released by KIDinaKORNER - Interscope Records on 2 jul. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Seen It All
Pop - Released by Asylum Worldwide LLC on 29 jun. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Presence Of A Legend
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by East West Records LLC on 2 apr. 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
American Pie (Acoustic)
Alternative en Indie - Released by Asylum on 7 sep. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Don't Shoot
Alternative en Indie - Released by East West Records LLC on 7 jun. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
So Lucky
Alternative en Indie - Released by EAST WEST RECORDS on 21 okt. 2020
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Stand Up
Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds
Alternative en Indie - Released by KIDinaKORNER - Interscope Records on 2 jul. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Keisha Complexion
Pop - Released by Asylum Records on 27 apr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
People Get Ready
Soul - Released by FACET RECORDS on 23 jun. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -