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((for|the Brazilian singer for the band Fresno|Lucas Silveira (Brazilian singer)))
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((Infobox musical artist
|name = Lucas Silveira
|image = Lucas_Silveira_2017.jpg
|background =  solo_singer
|birth_place = [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada 
|instrument = [[singing|Vocals]]<br />[[Acoustic guitar]]
|genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Folk music|folk]]
|occupation = [[Singer-Songwriter]]
|years_active = 2007–present
|label = [[Warner Music Canada]]<ref>((cite encyclopedia |title=Warner Music Canada LTD |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=September 4, 2013|publisher=Historica Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/warner-music-canada-ltd-emc |location=Canada))
</ref><ref name="rayner">((cite news |last=Rayner |first=Ben |date=May 24, 2007 |title=A band that Cliks |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2007/05/24/a_band_that_cliks.html
 |work=The Toronto Star | location=Toronto | access-date=November 14, 2018))</ref><br />[[Silver Label]]<ref name="rayner" /><br />[[Tommy Boy Entertainment]]
|website = ((URL|http://www.thecliks.com|thecliks.com))
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'''Lucas Silveira''' is a Canadian [[Singing|vocalist]], [[guitarist]], and [[songwriter]] from [[Toronto]], Ontario.<ref name=":1">((Cite news|url=http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=ca684e58-8600-4ece-8411-79ee2b997574%40sessionmgr101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=86650370&db=qth|title=Lucas Silveira Sticks with The Cliks|last=Nunn|first=Jerry|date=March 27, 2013|work=Windy City Times))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=http://thecliks.com/|title=The Cliks|website=The Cliks|access-date=2017-04-18))</ref> He has composed and performed [[Folk music|folk]] music and [[Rock music|rock]] music, and formed and played in the band [[The Cliks]]. Silveira is credited as the first openly [[Trans man|transgender]] man to have signed with a major record label.<ref name="okane">((cite news |last=0’Kane |first=Josh |date=June 5, 2015 |title=How T. Thomason is claiming a stake in the music world – and helping other transgender artists do the same |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/how-t-thomason-is-claiming-a-stake-in-the-music-world---and-helping-other-transgender-artists-do-the-same/article24822533/
 | location=Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail |access-date=November 14, 2018))</ref> He also writes about [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] issues.

==Biography==
Silveira was born in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]] in 1973.<ref name=":0" /> He considers himself Portuguese-Canadian because of his Portuguese ethnicity; he also lived in [[the Azores]] for 6 years in his youth and speaks fluent [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]].<ref name=":1" />

As a child, he knew that he was a boy. He cites his first memory of realizing his body didn't align with his gender identity was at the age of four. Growing up, he identified as a female and as a [[lesbian]]. In 2004, he came out to himself, family, and friends as a transgender man.

In 2010 he began [[hormone replacement therapy]].<ref>[http://theaudioperv.com/2010/09/05/tap-exclusive-interview-the-clikss-lucas-silveira/ TAP Exclusive Interview: The Cliks’s Lucas Silveira]. The Audio Perv (2010-09-05). Retrieved on 2013-07-19.</ref><ref name="Stylianou">((cite news |last=Stylianou |first=Savoula |date=2013-09-17|title=A voice for diversity  |url=https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2013-09-17/arts/voice-diversity/|work=The Queen's University Journal | location=Kingston, ON | access-date=November 14, 2018))</ref>

==Career==

Silveira started performing at the age of 18. He recorded two solo albums under his former name and before transitioning to male. Both were independently recorded and released. The first album is titled Perhaps and the second is titled Radio Friendly.

Silveira founded [[The Cliks]] in 2004<ref name=":0" /> alongside Ezri Kaysen and Heidi Chan. While the lineup changed over the years, The Cliks have released four albums and with one of their songs appearing on the [[List of The L Word soundtracks#L Tunes: Music from and inspired by The L Word|L Word Soundtrack]] and toured with [[Cyndi Lauper]] on the [[True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song)#Tours|True Colours Tour]].<ref name=":0" /> On their fourth album, ''Black Tie Elevator'' (2013) Silveira worked with fellow Canadian singer [[The Weeknd]] and collaborator Hill Kourkoutis.<ref>((cite news |last=Krewen |first=Nick |date=April 23, 2013 |title=Cliks lead singer Lucas Silveira changes tune on Black Tie Elevator |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2013/04/23/cliks_lead_singer_lucas_silveira_changes_tune_on_black_tie_elevator.html |work=The Toronto Star | location=Toronto | access-date=November 14, 2018))</ref> On TV Silveira appeared on MTV's [[Logo TV]],<ref name="rayner" /> [[The Late Late Show (U.S. TV series)|The Late Late Show]], [[Jimmy Kimmel Live]] and in the documentrary film ''Riot Acts''.<ref name=":0" />

Silveira was the first openly transgender man signed to a major label record deal in 2006, at the age of 33.<ref name=":2">((Cite news|url=http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/04/16/finding-his-voice|title=Finding His Voice|date=2013-04-16|access-date=2017-04-18|language=en))</ref><ref name="okane" /> Before coming out as transgender, Silveira composed and performed [[Folk music|folk]] music.<ref name=":0">((Cite journal|last=Krell|first=Elias|year=2013|title=Contours through Covers: Voice and Affect in the Music of Lucas Silveira|journal=Journal of Popular Music Studies|volume=25|issue=4|pages=476–503|doi=10.1111/jpms.12047))</ref> After coming out, however, he shifted his focus to [[Rock music|rock]] music.<ref name=":0" /> Describing his shift from folk to rock music, Silveira says, "When I finally came out as being trans, I found myself freer to explore that darker, more hard-core side, and my songwriting started getting heavier and heavier."<ref name=":0" />

In 2007, [[The Toronto Star]] suggested that Silveira was about to become "the first transgendered pop heartthrob ever to register on mainstream radar”.<ref name="rayner" /> He was also voted as the "sexiest Canadian man" in [[Chart Attack]]'s 15th Annual Readers' Poll making him the first trans man to win the award.<ref name="Harper">((cite news |last=Harper |first=Kate |date=2010-01-13 |location=Canada|title=Avril Lavigne, LIGHTS, Tegan And Sara, Cliks, Franz Ferdinand, Sloan Winners In 15th Annual Year End Readers' Poll | work=Chart Attack | url=http://www.chartattack.com/news/78485/avril-lavigne-lights-tegan-and-sara-cliks-franz-ferdinand-sloan-win-in-15th-annual-year-e |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716020725/http://www.chartattack.com/news/78485/avril-lavigne-lights-tegan-and-sara-cliks-franz-ferdinand-sloan-win-in-15th-annual-year-e |archive-date=2010-07-16 |access-date=2018-11-14))</ref>

Starting in September 2009 and ending in April 2016, Silveira began releasing popular cover songs on YouTube. Starting with [[Wham!]]'s song "Freedom"<ref name="Jennex">((cite encyclopedia |last1=Jennex |first1=Craig |last2=Murphy |first2=Maria |editor-last=Hawkins |editor-first=Stan |encyclopedia=The Routledge research companion to popular music and gender |title=Covering Trans Media: Temporal and narrative potential in messy musical archives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiAlDwAAQBAJ&q=%22the+cliks%22&pg=PA313 |access-date=2018-11-13 |year=2017 |publisher=New York, NY Routledge |location=Abingdon, Oxon |isbn=9781317042044 |pages=313–324 ))</ref> and also covered artists like [[Robyn]], [[Kanye West]], [[Lady Gaga]] and [[Justin Timberlake]].<ref name="Stylianou" /> When asked why he started this project, he explained that he did it for the sake of "doing a cover every like couple of weeks”.<ref name=":0" /> When his [[hormone replacement therapy]] began in 2010, viewers both began asking for recordings of the covers as well as asking questions about his changing voice. Silveira has not only been described as a role model for other transgender singers,<ref>((cite journal |last1=Bos |first1=Nancy |year=2017 |title=Forging a new path: Transgender singers in popular music. |journal=Journal of Singing |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=421–424 |id=((ProQuest|1874694775)) ))</ref> but his covers on YouTube “enabled listening practices that reimagine engagement with contemporary musical archives and the temporality of trans experience.”<ref name="Jennex" /> However, upon reflecting on this early success with a major label, he was shocked that "the band quickly hit a glass ceiling" where the "main focus wasn’t on my music. It was very much on my gender identity."<ref name="okane" />

In 2021, Silveira was announced as one of the hosts of the transgender-themed fashion makeover series ''[[Shine True]]'' for [[OutTV (Canadian TV channel)|OutTV]] and [[Fuse (TV channel)|Fuse]].<ref name=tveh>Greg David, [https://www.tv-eh.com/2021/02/11/outtv-and-fuse-announce-premire-date-and-cast-for-shine-true/ "OUTtv and Fuse announce premiere date and cast for Shine True"]. ''TV, eh?'', February 11, 2021.</ref>

== Activism ==
In 2011, he appeared with [[Ian Harvie]] and [[Selene Luna]], in [[Buck Angel]]'s documentary ''[[Sexing the Transman]]'', investigating the sexuality of transgender men and the change in their sexual behavior after they transitioned.<ref>((cite journal |last1=Ford |first1=Akkadia |title=Transliteracy and the New Wave of Gender-diverse Cinema |journal=Fusion |date=2014 |volume=5 |url=http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/005-fusion-changing-patterns-and-critical-dialogues-new-uses-of-literacy/transliteracy-and-the-new-wave-of-gender-diverse-cinema/))</ref>

Silveira has written and published articles around LGBT identity, specifically transgender identity. In May 2013, Silveira published an article with [[The Huffington Post|HuffPost]] Music Canada titled "I'm Trans, I Get Bullied, and I'm Fighting Back", where he wrote about the bullying that he endures as a transgender man and how he has fought back.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lucas-silveira/adult-bullying_b_3287841.html|title=I'm Trans, I Get Bullied, I'm Fighting Back|website=The Huffington Post|date=17 May 2013|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-04-18))</ref> In July 2015, Silveira published another article in HuffPost Living Canada titled "Why We Need to Talk About Caitlyn Jenner." He expresses support for [[Caitlyn Jenner|Jenner]] and transgender individuals around the world, while arguing that Jenner's story is one of privilege that many don't have. He ends the article by congratulating Jenner as well as transgender man Aydian Dowling, but emphasizes trying "not to fall into the same pattern that others have before us and be mindful that there are so many amazing diverse people in our community who all need a voice to tell their stories."<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lucas-silveira/caitlyn-jenner-transgendered-transition_b_7496172.html|title=Why We Need to Talk About Caitlyn Jenner|website=The Huffington Post|date=2 June 2015|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-04-18))</ref>

In 2016, Silveira wrote two pieces for SamaritanMag. His October 2016 article titled "Filmmaker Captures Reactions of His Family and Friends in Coming Out Doc", Silveira interviews Alden Peter on his documentary ''Coming Out.'' In the article, Silveria asks Peter about his desire to [[Coming out|come out]], vulnerability, and hopes for future projects.<ref>((Cite news|url=http://www.samaritanmag.com/features/qa-filmmaker-captures-reactions-his-family-and-friends-coming-out-doc|title=Q&A: Filmmaker Captures Reactions of His Family and Friends in Coming Out Doc|access-date=2017-04-18|language=en-US))</ref> In November 2016, Silveira published another article titled "Q&A: Film Director Adam Garnet Jones Explores Unique First Nations Theme." He interviews [[Adam Garnet Jones]] on his [[LGBT]] drama ''Fire Song,'' [[Two-Spirit|two-spirit]] identity, and [[homophobia]] within [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] communities.<ref>((Cite news|url=http://www.samaritanmag.com/features/qa-film-director-adam-garnet-jones-explores-unique-first-nations-theme|title=Q&A: Film Director Adam Garnet Jones Explores Unique First Nations Theme|access-date=2017-04-18|language=en-US))</ref> Additionally, he has been interviewed by the CBC on [[Bill C-16]] which introduced a Canadian law that added gender expression and gender identity as protected grounds to the [[Canadian Human Rights Act]].<ref>((cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  |date=May 18, 2016 |title=Transgender voices on Bill C-16 and the struggles that led to it |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/transgender-law-reactions-1.3586396 |work=CBC News | location=Canada | access-date=November 14, 2018))</ref>

In April 2017, Silveira published a piece on SamaritanMag titled "Q&A: the Cliks’ Lucas Silveira interviews Fellow Transgender Rock Singer Laura Jane Grace". In the article, he interviews [[Laura Jane Grace|Grace]] on her experience publicly coming out, [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioning]], and Grace's book, ''Tranny: Confessions Of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sell Out'', and band, [[Against Me!]].<ref>((Cite news|url=http://www.samaritanmag.com/features/qa-cliks%E2%80%99-lucas-silveira-interviews-fellow-transgender-rock-singer-laura-jane-grace|title=Q&A: the Cliks' Lucas Silveira interviews Fellow Transgender Rock Singer Laura Jane Grace|access-date=2017-04-18|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419100837/http://www.samaritanmag.com/features/qa-cliks%E2%80%99-lucas-silveira-interviews-fellow-transgender-rock-singer-laura-jane-grace|url-status=dead))</ref>

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