Our weekly segment Submission Sundays features the new Doug Romanow-produced single “Big World” which is set to appear on the new Feed the Fire album by JUNO Award-winning artist/producer Kinnie Starr.
SUBMISSION SUNDAYS SELECTION DETAILS
- Who: Recording artist Kinnie Starr.
- What: The new Doug Romanow-produced “Big World” powered by Aporia Records. It’s the second single from Starr’s upcoming 2018 album, Feed the Fire.
- When: “Big World” is available on various streaming platforms including Apple Music and SoundCloud.
- Where: Representing Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Why: Kinnie Starr brings an upbeat vibe with her new single and previews what could be her biggest project to date. The West Coast talent has never been featured on HipHopCanada before but she’s on to her eighth studio release since the late 90s and has multiple award wins and nominations under her belt. Starr was nominated for New Artist of the Year at the 2004 JUNO Awards, and won the Aboriginal Album of the Year award in 2010 for her production work on the Digging Roots’ album, We Are. On top of the new single, Starr is also currently promoting her documentary Play Your Gender, in which she interviews Sara Quinn (Tegan & Sara), Melissa Auf der Maur (Smashing Pumpkins), Patty Schemel (Hole), and more of the music industry’s most talented women.
You can listen to “Big World” below.
KINNIE STARR – BIG WORLD
About Kinnie Star
Kinnie Starr is a genre-defying artist blazing her own influential trail. Entirely self-trained, Starr moves from hip hop to art-pop, folk to spoken word with eclectic grace. Her music is fearless, intuitive, politically charged and melodic, challenging listeners while making them bounce and nod. In 2000, after leaving DefJam, she was one of the first beatmakers to mix powwow and hip-hop/EDM on her underground classic Red%X which featured Ulali.
Starr’s career has taken her around the world — across Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia, but she is first and foremost an artist and activist. Her activism began before her career in music as a visual artist, and her current visual work continues to touch on her areas of interest: race, home, family and humanity. Most recently, she collaborated with director Stephanie Clattenburg on the 2016 documentary, Play Your Gender, which explores the realities of being a woman in the music industry, a business in which less than 5% of producers are women even though many of the most bankable stars are female.
Her upcoming 2018 album, Feed the Fire, comes out of much reflection done in the aftermath of a taxi cab collision that resulted in a brain injury. Her road to recovery deepened her interest in the nature of communication in an era where immediacy is king and anxiety disorders rise alongside extroversion and “urgent” digital chatter. Feed the Fire will be a critical look at where we are at in our relationships to the screen, to our faiths, and to each other: our devices allow us to stay up all night viewing porn, fighting for likes or hype on social media, tailoring our public personas as a means of delivering toxicity…or warmth. Feed the Fire is about hope and despair in perilous times and reconnecting with our truest selves.
Born in Calgary of French, German, Irish and Mohawk bloodlines, the trilingual (English, French and Spanish) Starr has a BA in Race and Gender Studies from Queen’s University, Ontario. Raised in Calgary and university educated in Ontario, she now calls Sechelt, BC home; and shares her life with partner, Gwaai Edenshaw, a renowned carver and the son of Guujaaw.
Visit the official website KinnieStarr.ca.
SUBMISSION SUNDAYS INFO
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A summary of this week’s selections:
- Brad From PK enlists SLYDE for the CorMill-produced Golden Child
- Brampton artist Lord Badu previews EP with “Light of Mine” video
- Toronto artist EazyRydah releases the “Designer ‘n’ Gold” video
- Vancouver’s Kinnie Starr drops the Doug Romanow-produced “Big World”
- Ottawa’s own Yung Heff releases the “Something Else” video
- MrFinch and Knucklehead (T from TPB) drop the “Trailer Park Song” video
- Calgary group Real Side drops the “Uninvited” video
