Mariya Delano @mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
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Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)

Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial , Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)

She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).

Photo of Wendy Carlos surrounded by keyboards, electronic music equipment, and holding a Sphynx cat in her lap. Wendy is a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with an endearing and awkward smile.
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