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Guardian: Three years ago, after relationships with both men and
women, he met William Charles Pollock, who works at BBC 6 Music, by
chance, at a Christmas party. It was “love at first sight”. Wolf was
at a low ebb, after touring relentlessly and experiencing bouts of
depression that led him to contemplate quitting the music industry
altogether. His songs at the time reflected his state of mind –
melancholic and aggressive, with tortured, complex lyrics – and his
performance persona became increasingly outrageous as he took to the
stage dripping in feathers and spray-painted silver. But now that Wolf
is engaged to be married, he seems to have rediscovered a sense of
simple optimism. His next single, “The City”, has already been hailed
by the website Digital Spy as “four of the most joyous minutes you’ll
have this year with your clothes on”. The accompanying video features
a group of shiny, happy people paddling in the surf in Santa Monica.
“I wanted nothing to feel artificial on this album at all,” says Wolf.
“I wanted to document my joy as naturally as possible… It was time to
grow up and change.” Later he adds, almost as an afterthought: “I
can’t lie about things. I find it very hard.”

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Vancouver Sun:“I want to feel comfortable in my body, I don’t want to
deal with people asking me if I’m a guy or a girl,” she says. “I tried
so many times to be a boy, just to make other people happy. I’m
concentrating on myself now.” Shamai started dressing as a man,
although never at his parents’ home, but when his parents got
separated, a few months before he turned 21, “they told me they didn’t
want to see me anymore,” he says. “I left home, and decided to start
transitioning. They couldn’t understand it.” Although other family
members have told him that he is valued in their family life together,
he has not been in contact with his parents for more than three years.
“I still miss my family, around holidays or whatever,” he says. “You
want somebody to be proud of you. Family times I really want to call
my mother and say, ‘I have this great job, I have relationships.’ “I
realize I was never what my mother wanted me to be. I wanted to try to
make her happy but I haven’t had a chance to say, ‘I’m not a girl but
I’m still successful!’” (Gender identity crisis can be the beginning
of a long, lonely journey).

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