Venus de Mars is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, best known as a singer-songwriting transgender rock star and leader of the glam-punk trans-band Venus de Mars & All the Pretty Horses. Venus came out as transgender in 1988. A time when identifying as trans meant being classified as having a mental perversion and living as an outcast. Her refusal to live a shadow existence, instead embracing her uniqueness, complicated her musical and artistic career paths. She is now mid-process in writing a memoir reflecting her thirty-year trans journey and place in this fast-changing, trans-embracing-backlashing world where we now find ourselves. Venus along with her spouse Lynette Reini-Grandell are also the subject of the award-winning [2004] rockdocumentary

Venus of Mars by filmmaker Emily Goldberg. (available for streaming via Amazon Prime Video)

Venus is working on a new album due in the winter of 2024.