Name: Here, Queer, & Staying (debut single)
Duration: P00H03M55S
Description: “Here, Queer and Staying”, the debut single from newcomer Jay-MarieisHoly, is an ode the gender expansive, cisheteronormative-resistant masses. With a bass-driven melody and tastefully light jazz guitar throughout, the laid back track gifts listeners a pause in their power, and simultaneous lifting via four minutes of undeniable sonic soothing.

Here, Queer, & Staying (debut single)

by Jay-Marie is Holy

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Charles P Jay-Marie’s voice puts me in the mind of a modern day Tracy Chapman. There is a sense of vulnerability but also great strength in Jay’s delivery. I can’t recommend it enough.

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“Here, Queer and Staying”, the debut single from newcomer Jay-MarieisHoly, is an ode the gender expansive, cisheteronormative-resistant masses. With a bass-driven melody and tastefully light jazz guitar throughout, the laid back track gifts listeners a pause in their power, and simultaneous lifting via four minutes of undeniable sonic soothing.

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Round the cycle we still go
Mourning what we hate to know
New dead

Wishing I ain't have to see
So much death in front of me
More gone

School and home and work and play
The fight is always rigged their way
This pain is a job that's never done

See but I can't change the game
we all got to play
No no no matter what I say
But I can change the rules that we play by
Heres one that's nonnegotiable

Here, Queer, Stayin
We’re here
And we ain't goin nowhere x2

So much death out in these streets
We have had to redefine
living

You've pushed us out and kept us down
You can't get away with this much
Longer

We’re up in your workplace
All up in your bathrooms
We gotta make a life just like
you
x2

We are here and we are queer and we are trans/
And we ain’t goin nowhere

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released May 30, 2018
Bass, Vocals: Jay-MarieisHoly
Jazz Guitar: Chanelle Ignant
Cajon, Drum kit: Jeremy Hoenig
Production & Mastering: Michael Thompson

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Jay-Marie is Holy St. Louis, Missouri

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and gender- & genre-busting artist Jay-Marie is Holy (they/them) creates to reclaim W-Holy- ness.

Their unique bass-bearing, saxophone-soothing and queerly textured vocals sit in the spirit, with an unabashed tenderness. Sharing music from their meditative practices, all is offered in prayer that audiences leave filled with the renewing power of Spirit. ... more

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