She was far ahead of her time when she began gigging around Nashville. Her family’s now making sure her story’s being shared around the city.
“It’s like she knew,” said Vonnie Crawford Moore. “It’s like she knew this day would happen.”
On Friday night, the crowd began arriving to a spot on Jefferson Street.
What was about to happen was a long time coming for Vonnie and Andrenee Majors-Douglass.
“We feel amazing,” said Andrenee. “We’re glad that at this point of our lives, we can give her her flowers now.”
A few years ago, Vonnie and Andrenee inherited close to everything belonging to an aunt they never got to know in life; transgender soul singer Jackie Shane.
“Jackie and Little Richard!” Andrenee said, pulling a picture from a book. “These are never been seen pictures. We have not released these pictures.”
In the 1950s, Jackie was part of the music scene on Jefferson Street. It was a move to Canada in the early 60s that got her on the Canadian charts with a song called Any Other Way.