4 hours, 100 artists, and one 26-minute flute song: this epic new album is in support of trans rights

A new compilation from Red Hot arrives at a critical moment for the trans community—and the organization that produced the album.

In 2024, the singer Sade released her first song in six years, Andre 3000 debuted a 26-minute flute song, and Sam Smith covered Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”—and it was all for the same project. They are three of the more than 100 artists who contributed original songs and covers to Transa, a nearly four-hour epic of a compilation album from longstanding advocacy-through-music organization Red Hot.