The X Issue star Dylan Holloway now performs as Dylan and the Moon since popping out as trans. (Instagram/@dylanandthemoon)
Former star of the UK model of The X Issue, and indie pop singer, Dylan Holloway has shared a sequence of movies wherein he collaborates along with his pre-transition self.
Holloway, who now performs below the moniker Dylan and the Moon, first got here to nationwide consideration in 2012 after making it to the reside finals on sequence 9 of the ITV expertise present.
He entered the competitors as a part of duo MK1, alongside fellow musician Simeon Dixon, however after being mentored by decide Louis Walsh, the pair have been eradicated in week three of the finals.
MK1 continued to make music for a couple of years however then the duo parted methods, and Holloway launched his first Dylan and the Moon single in 2022.
Additionally in 2022, he revealed he’d been taking testosterone for one 12 months, and is now dwelling life as a trans man.
Though Holloway has launched a couple of singles within the two years since first sharing his gender journey on social media, together with “Lemons” with Jason Derulo, which has greater than one million streams on Spotify, it’s his movies harmonising along with his pre-transition self which have made his followers cry.
A clip shared on his Instagram account in April confirmed him singing Coldplay’s shifting hit “Yellow” as himself now, with harmonies from him in 2022, and his pre-transition self in 2018.
“2018, 2022 and 2024, singing in three-part concord in several levels of my transition, the attractive Coldplay ‘Yellow’,” he wrote. “Look ahead to that bass drop on the very finish although… if little Dylan may see me now.”
One other clip, uploaded in June, reveals him now singing a Tame Impala music along with his pre-transition self in 2019.
“Discovered an outdated clip of me singing in 2019, so thought just a little concord would sit below very properly… nonetheless so particular to have the ability to do that,” he wrote, including: “Whoever you might be, be you. You’re fantastic.”
Within the remark part, followers have gushed not solely over Holloway’s beautiful voice, but additionally how he’s lifting up the trans group.
“As a closeted trans boy who loves music and singing, this makes me really feel so hopeful. Thanks, Dylan,” one particular person wrote.
One other mentioned: “The bass in your voice now… like chocolate, my man.”
A 3rd commented: “This is without doubt one of the most wonderful and good creations of music ever. Maintain the ability, king.”
In a video posted on his Instagram web page in March, the musician defined his resolution to share collaboration movies along with his former self.
“Since transitioning, I’ve been utilizing my outdated vocal recordings and outdated movies of myself to harmonise and duet with my former self,” he wrote. “I need individuals to know that it’s OK to embrace who you’ve been, as a result of they’d need you to be who you at the moment are.”
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