New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Juno-winner Kinnie Starr has released "
I'm Ready"; an empowered, reflective pop track that channels the hope and power that comes from making difficult decisions that allow one to move forward. The lyrical hook is as simple and effective as the production that drives the song into a toe-tapping summer jam with the stirring refrain "...I'm ready to walk away, I'm ready, yeah it's a good day..." Producer, Doug Romanow, leaves space for Kinnie's airy vocal flow to fully inhabit each verse then unleashes flickering synths and an irresistible toe-tapping beat to create a truly uplifting chorus. The addition of a gritty verse from Canadian rapper Spek brings a dynamic twist to the track and a fresh perspective on challenges that need to be left behind.
Kinnie shared "
I'm Ready" on
Thursday in an exclusive premiere with Substream Magazine. The piece also included an wide-ranging interview that touched on Kinnie's recovery from a traumatic brain injury, her evolution as an artist, and her recent documentary, Play Your Gender, which tackled the gender gap in the music industry. Read more here: https://substreammagazine.com/2018/07/premiere-kinnie-starr-im-ready/
Artist statement:
"This song is my own anthem about BOUNDARIES!! Being injured from a taxi cab accident in 2015 clarified for me who has my back - both figuratively and literally. This song is about celebrating the act of letting go of those who do not support me.
Spek's verse tips his hat to his own personal journey with letting go. I hope this song uplifts the listener to feel confident in their own abilities to move forward, and away from those who do not support their journey!"
"
I'm Ready" is taken from Kinnie's Feed The Fire album, due in October 2018. CD/Vinyl/Digital pre-order available here: https://bit.ly/2uW1iCt
Need To Know:
Juno Award winner - producer of Best Aboriginal Album, also nominated for Best New Artist.
Kinnie 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 many more of the music industry's most talented women.
Feed The Fire is Kinnie's 8th full-length release since Tidy in 1997 (via Mercury/DefJam).
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 Def Jam, 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. The singles "Gotta Do Something", "
Big World" and "
I'm Ready" are all out now.
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.
