12 Facts About Lucas Silveira

Lucas Silveira is a Canadian vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.

Lucas Silveira has composed and performed folk music and rock music, and formed and played in the band The Cliks.

Lucas Silveira has lived in the Azores for 6 years in his youth and speaks fluent Portuguese.

Lucas Silveira cites his first memory of realizing his body did not align with his gender identity was at the age of four.

Lucas Silveira recorded two solo albums under his former name and before transitioning to male.

Lucas Silveira founded The Cliks in 2004 alongside Ezri Kaysen and Heidi Chan.

On TV Lucas Silveira appeared on MTV's Logo TV, The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and in the documentrary film Riot Acts.

Lucas Silveira was the first openly transgender man signed to a major label record deal in 2006, at the age of 33.

Lucas Silveira was voted as the "sexiest Canadian man" in Chart Attack's 15th Annual Readers' Poll making him the first trans man to win the award.

In 2021, Lucas Silveira was announced as one of the hosts of the transgender-themed fashion makeover series Shine True for OutTV and Fuse.

Lucas Silveira has written and published articles around LGBT identity, specifically transgender identity.

In May 2013, Lucas Silveira published an article with 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.