De La’s ‘daisy age’ mentality, fun hippie outfits, crazy hair and ridiculous language play ushered me smoothly into spinning poetry into rhymes. Northern Haze, Charlie Panigoniak and Kinnie Starr are the latest artists to be featured. and can sift through the hands of a woman or man Accomplished MC and poet Kinnie Starr mixes up samples and free form poetry to create hip hop with a feminine edge and half breed love. Step Back is a battle track, but every song afterwards is about Starr's family and private life. check the lessons in the shape of land Her activism began before her career in music as a visual artist, and her current visual work continues to … Channel: Through the Vortex » indigenous Viewing all articles Browse latest Browse all 5 Who Will Save Our Waters: Kinnie Starr At Woodford. "I write a lot, and very quickly these days, off the seat of my pants," she adds. Two years later, she lived and worked in Las Vegas, singing for Zumanity, Cirque du Soleil's controversial cabaret production and she found a new, comfortable home at MapleMusic Recordings releasing Sun Again in 2003, plus sealing a publishing deal with Last Gang Publishing and their partner company Olé. Her musical style has been described as "hip hop aggro groove"[citation needed]. blood of our heart beats for change. 7:59 ... Not Your Enemy (Bymski Remix) Ostwelve. Kinnie has started writing for the Native publication Spirit Magazine, and recently interviewed Daniel Lanois for its upcoming spring issue. Trust me, you honestly will be mind/soul-blown. Some estimate there are over 200,000 people in Canada with Native blood but not identifying as Native. 1 single on CBC Radio 3's new countdown show The R3-30. Starr has enlisted other Canadian musicians to appear on her albums over the years, including Swollen Members' Moka Only, Coco Love Alcorn, former Dream Warrior Spek and Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara. I chose to sample Ulali because this group of women influenced me heavily in the decision to be proud of who I am, despite my impurities. Later.' love beats that merge like a german indian Traditional songs have come about from dreams, ceremonies, listening to nature, prayer and life experiences. She produced the album We Are... by Digging Roots, which won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2010. The beats and rhymes I have written showcase my background as a middle-class, white red girl from Calgary Alberta, raised on metal and old school rap, as well as an intellect, rocker and a seeker of truth. Although we’re not totally sold on the idea of the federal government designating one day a year to celebrate Indigenous culture, at least it’s an opportunity to check out some amazing performances by Indigenous artists.. And, as June 21st also marks the summer solstice, there are more than enough … Feel Your Love ft. Kinnie Starr Artist: Julian Taylor Band. She is trilingual (English, French and Spanish). [7] In 2018, the film was screened at the Reeperbahn Festival as part of the "Key Change Festival Initiative". Her new one is called Anything (but we'll get there in a minute), which drew critical acclaim from all corners. She was nominated for the Juno Award for New Artist of the Year in 2004. It's a bluesy blast-off, embossed with the spirit of self-determination that has defined her career. love six shades of sex all up in my face - Reeperbahn Festival", "Can I Flaunt My Body and Be a Feminist? One of the very first Indigenous Female Hip Hop artists in Canada, Kinnie Starr has contributed so much to the movement and will be a target interviewee. pummeling the fields as the wagons roll in The pair recorded and produced the album at Ogre studios in Vancouver BC throughout 2005. I began getting up and rhyming simply to test my courage and make some feminine presence felt. [2] The next year, Seagram bought Polygram, the parent company of Island Def Jam, and merged it into Universal Music Group. Feed the Fire genre-bends with trap beats, alt-rock riffs and catchy pop hooks. Superposition Artist: Nadjiwan When De La Soul’s “Three Feet High And Rising” hit the streets in ’89 it was like my brain exploded with optimism. | Kinnie Starr", "Today's Show: Friday, August 11, 2006 | The Rachel Maddow Show | Air America Radio", "Electro Artist Kinnie Starr Sings Out for Water", "Kinnie Starr – Kiss It Review | New Canadian Music Mobile", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinnie_Starr&oldid=1007006844, People educated at Western Canada High School, BLP articles lacking sources from April 2015, Pages using Template:Infobox musical artist with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Aporia Records (current), Mercury/Def Jam, "Month of Trickery" Director: Marsha Herle. Since time immemorial, Indigenous people have connected to the land; an inspirational source for music. Check out our 2cd Annual Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week -- Happening Nov 18 - 23, 2019! To this day, they are the only sample I have ever used. That's more like a rock 'n' roll mentality, to just slam the songs out. Starr has often spoken out, for example during a 2013 performance at Vancouver Folk Music Festival,[13] about the importance of protecting water. Widely known in hip-hop circles as an artist with a strikingly authentic voice, Starr has been blazing trails since 1996 with her beat slamming recordings, outspoken race and gender politics, intelligent and edgy visual art and striking looks. Kinnie Starr is also featured on the "Music" page. According to legend, the true extent of her talent was first revealed on trip to New York City, when a friend pushed her onstage at an East Village club's open-mic night, where her impromptu spoken-word poetry met an enthusiastic reception. Kinnie Starr JUNO-winner Kinnie Starr, is a multi-threat songwriter, performer, visual artist, filmmaker and producer. Following a self-released demo called Learning 2 Cook in 1995, she released her debut album Tidy in 1996, mixing rock, punk, pop, and hip-hop, along with her trademark spoken-word poetry. Kinnie Starr is also featured on the "Music" page. Kinnie Starr, Emerged, from the Juno nominated album Last Week: 6. "They're quite sparse, sort of Joni Mitchell-ish, but they're not really folk songs; they're tipped towards jazz and old-school Motown ballads." Making hip hop gave (and gives me) me a chance to slowly and articulately find my footing in the complicated landscape of Native and white Canadians. Because the effort here is to represent a people and not a style, sounds and sentiments will vary—politics, protest, introspection, celebration; folk, hip-hop, pop, and otherwise. Producer: Sahar Yousefi. After releasing her 2003 album Sun Again, she moved to Las Vegas. Entirely self-trained, Starr moves from hip hop to art-pop, folk to spoken word to EDM with eclectic grace. What will you be doing to celebrate? There is a huge portion of Canada’s population carrying Native blood that does not associate with Native culture or stand behind Native causes as a result of elitism, which often comes from what one filmmaker refers to as “club Native.” Those who are not full blood don’t know much about their family, don’t have status or are not from the reserve are often ridiculed or ostracized if they come forward to identify as Native. Having suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2015, Starr not only released a new album but also composed the score for the award-winning film, Edge of the Knife. On that album, she rapped in three languages: English, Spanish, and French. Vic Florencia mixed Anything's title track, which is also a single. Most of my art reflected my distaste for corporate, colonial culture. Both Cris and Ron are original and successful artists outside of my project, so working with them is seamless; their artistic egos are satisfied both inside and outside the Kinnie Starr stage. Starr was born and raised in Calgary, where she attended Western Canada High School. You know, 'Fuck you! Produced by Sahar Yousefi and directed by Stephanie Clattenburg, the film premiered at the Canberra International Film Festival in Australia. Starr's songs have been included on the soundtracks for the TV series The L Word and the movie Thirteen. In 2001, Starr co-starred in Down and Out with the Dolls, a Kurt Voss movie about a fictional all-girl rock band. smile of a child held by strong shoulders Charlie Panigoniak. Eight years later this song still resonates with Natives I meet all over Canada and the U.S.A., and for that I am grateful. She performed in November 2000 at Lee's Palace in Toronto.[3]. Feel Your Love ft. Kinnie Starr Artist: Julian Taylor Band. Artists such as Drezus, Ostwelve, Hellnback, Kinnie Starr and Snotty Nose Rez Kids explore the meaning of Indigenous Hip Hop and the connections between the music and their cultures. Jacks of Deep River? Starr has a BA in Race and Gender Studies from Queen's University.[1]. After moving to Vancouver, Starr formed her first band in 1992. "I don't expect to sell a billion records, but the fact that I'm working with people who believe in me - I may sound cheesy, but it really does make me feel good. 5. IMAGINE IF ALL THESE PEOPLE STOOD UP AND RALLIED IN DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS. The graffiti and rap scene in the early and mid nineties was pretty much dominated by men, especially in terms of freestyles at clubs. I feel so lucky to share a song with them! I was, and am, a huge advocate of weaning ourselves off of TV and mainstream culture and challenging male centered ideologies as well as colonial ideology that celebrates European culture over indigenous beauty. Salt and Pepa were huge as far as stardom went, but in the club scene female rappers were non-existent. [citation needed]. Ice Cube, Run DMC, LL Cool J and Black Sabbath took a back seat in my cassette player. [12] On 31 August, her single "Anything" was the first-ever No. The Kinnie Starr you already know: MC, singer, poet, actress, beatnik, musicmaker, who was born in Calgary. Not just Kinnie Starr the musician; rather, it’s about Kinnie Starr the individual, the human being, and artist. Starr conceived of, and co-produced, the 2016 documentary Play Your Gender,[6] which explores the gender gap in the music industry, asking why only 5% of professional music producers are female. 3:44 PREVIEW Indigenous Summer (Bedroom & Bymski Remix) Ostwelve. The online exhibition will highlight 13 Indigenous artists making social and political impacts in Canada. Track 04: Kinnie Starr - Bela - 2:15 - 5.2MB. This imported European attitude disenfranchises what could be a massive Native presence in the Americas. In 2006 she formally became a mentor for aspiring indigenous musicians as a faculty member with the Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association's Aboriginal Music Program (AMP) Camp. "If I'm driving I'll pull over, or I'll take my sketchbook out and put in on my lap while I drive if I can't pull over. In 2004, U.K. production wizards Hybrid and Blackwatch cut body-rocking club remixes of Starr's song Alright (Release Records), a Sun Again stand-out. And though my feet sometimes stumble, I believe without hip hop I would still be hiding in the closet, afraid to take a step forward as the woman I am becoming. Became her adult self in Vancouver, and was raised on heavy doses of Zeppelin, Sade and De La Soul's Daisy Age. Starr is a trailblazing female Indigenous artist with her unique blend of conscious hiphop and groove driven pop. ", But wait, there's more: Starr has another body of work in progress, a collection of four-track songs that she's self-producing on a well-used, much-loved Tascam 564. January 3, 2014, 12:00 am: Search ... Kinnie Starr At Woodford. "An artistic, feminist, angry, well-articulated rant of the highest order," said allmusic.com; "raw, funny and definitely an original," added the Globe and Mail…. The Kinnie Starr you'll meet on Anything: For starters, the title is her stock answer to a question that she hears all the time: "So, uh, what does your music sound like?" The creative core behind Anything is Kinnie, who wrote all of its complex and shape-shifting toons, and John Raham, the drum thunder in Kinnie's live band. Starr performing in Ottawa, Ontario at Westfest 2008, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association, imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, "Vancouver's Kinnie Starr releases the "Big World" single", "Manifesto Festival Magazine Vol.5 (p. 29) by Manifesto Community Projects", "LIVE: Kinnie Starr w/ Sook-Yin Lee & Tara Chase Tuesday November 07, 2000 @ 10:30 AM Nov. 3, 2000 Lee's Palace Toronto, ON", "Film about gender gap in music industry screens at Reel 2 Real festival", "Film Programme Confirmed! Cirque du Soleil pursued Starr to sing in their productions, and in 2003 she contracted with them to perform in Zumanity for two years. [10] Starr identifies as bisexual, and has enjoyed popularity in the queer community.[11]. June 21st is National Aboriginal Day in Canada. Northern Haze. Good Times Artist: Relic Kings After moving to Vancouver, Starr … Nelly Furtado credits Starr as an influence. All opinions belong to the podcaster; however, podcasters are expected to adhere to our guidelines. Bio . "You don't appreciate / No room to debate / My eyes don't dilate / Your words have no weight," Starr spits on Step Back, Anything's opening song. Kinnie Starr is a genre-defying artist blazing her own influential trail. Get the free Adobe PDF reader, you know i love to wear dresses of victorian lace City cleanup would come round and paint over my black and white work, and I would go back and outline to simply give the pieces more depth. As soon as he was able to do something, he stepped to the plate," Kinnie says. Last Week: 9. Tidy (Canada 1996; U.S.A. 1997) was the first of Starr's four records. On top of my thick dub-rock sloppy hip hop beats, I throw words like they are stones in a river and make my way through life. Sunday, June 21st, the National Music Centre celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day with Speak Up! now grown radiant and getting bolder Download this text as .PDF (36K) ‎The Foundation: Indigenous Hip Hop in Canada (2019) directed by Diana Hellson • Film + cast • Letterboxd "I'm very stoked to be with MapleMusic. 15+ designers, 50+ models, music (with Dj Kookum, Kinnie Starr), couture market - ALL Indigenous. Starr has a BA in Race and Gender Studies from Queen's University. even the strongest rock can become sand Alida Kinnie Starr (born 1970) is a Canadian multidisciplinary recording artist. Kinnie Starr. It’s a long way from playing Cajun party music to acapella vocal arrangements of First Nations songs to composing music and sound design for theatre, dance, including Vancouver Opera’s Missing about the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women all over turtle island. For Indigenous communities in Canada, music can be a healing balm and it is essential to cultural, spiritual, and communal beliefs and daily practices. 5. Writing rhymes affords wordplay, metaphor and making light of huge topics like not being connected to my Native ancestors. - Shaun Conner, The Vancouver Sun. Kinnie has toured Japan, the U.K., the U.S.A. and Canada in the past five years, which brings us up to speed with the here and now. Making hip hop offered me a controlled environment where I was able to clear the clutter from my mind. In the late '90s and in 2004, she toured Canada with Veda Hille and Oh Susanna as part of the "Scrappy Bitch Tour". In 1997, Starr appeared on the Lilith Fair tour. The rabble podcast network offers an alternative take on politics, entertainment, society, stories, community and life in general. Hip hop is a place where we share our stories eloquently at times, arrogantly or awkwardly at others. In 2011, Starr was honoured as a Pioneer in Canadian Hip Hop Culture by the ManifesTO festival. 7. Kinnie Starr. "A lot of people who love hip hop love what I do, because I'm doing my own shit," she says. [8], Starr composed the score for the 2018 Haida language film Edge of the Knife. Exhibit Online. By Calum Slingerland. DJ Kookum. Her ancestry is French, German, Irish and indigenous, specifically Mohawk. "I try to uphold the old-school MC mentality when I'm on stage - taking the crowd along with me, rather than just playing songs at them. [9], Much of Starr's work engages positively with female sexuality, in contrast to male perspectives often associated with hip-hop culture. ". National Music Centre Takes Indigenous "Speak Up!" On my first album in ’96 I wrote, “the Big Boys went out of style/ and so Pavement lines the roads now/ with indifferent reference to the past and preference/ of white pop trash and over abundance/ but where are my ancestors? DJ Kookum is an amazing Indigenous DJ and a truly amazing woman who is currently dominating in the music scene in BC and now, across the globe! Ornette Coleman once said that “Sound is to people what the sun is to light.” Sound is foundational to the human and it enhances our other senses. Kinnie Starr’s eighth record, Feed the Fire dropped October 19th. love lighting bonfires of contemplation Kinnie Starr. Became her adult self in Vancouver, and was raised on heavy doses of Zeppelin, Sade and De La Soul's Daisy Age. Bio. Alida Kinnie Starr 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. To a woman who carries Native blood but is mostly white by blood quantum, hip hop is a world where story-telling allows me to be frank about my questions, my spirit, and my life mission, which is that people should come together. [4], Her 2018 album, Feed the Fire explores finding one's truest self amidst the digital chaos of the 21st century.[5]. Her music is fearless, intuitive, politically charged and melodic, challenging listeners while making them bounce and nod. A new music video featuring the music of Kinnie Starr has stop-motion wood carved characters confronting Prime Minister Stephen Harper, depicted on a … The world goes 'pop' in new Kinnie Starr song The track Win or Lose is the first new pop song from Kinnie Starr since her 2018 album, Feed the Fire. Bio. This page was last edited on 16 February 2021, at 00:16. Buffy Sainte-Marie and a galaxy of award-winning Indigenous artists including: Kinnie Starr, Snotty Nosed Rez Kids, PiqSiq, Shawnee – are all streaming at 2 Rivers Remix 2020, Online Feast… Read more “2 Rivers Remix Virtual Feast soars into the stratosphere with BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE!” featuring Moka Only and Spek from the Dream Warriors. ear to wind mind to the rain For Kinnie Starr, it means advocating for queer and Aboriginal rights with music that spans anything from hip-hop to alt-rock. The Kinnie Starr you already know: MC, singer, poet, actress, beatnik, musicmaker, who was born in Calgary. Kim Cooke has been watching and supporting my career since I started. Her ancestry is French, German, Irish and indigenous, specifically Mohawk. I'm first and foremost an MC." Kinnie Starr experienced a traumatic brain injury from a car accident in 2015. Kinnie Starr, of mixed Mohawk, Dutch, German, and Irish ancestry, has overcome a great deal in her journey to continue making music. Kinnie was a lead player in the alt/indie film Down and Out with the Dolls (filmed in 2001), directed by Kurt Voss (of Sugar Town fame). Huge questions about the way society is structured come clearer to me from writing rhymes. She has twenty songs in progress, and hopes to release ten - when they're ready. Also in 2003, Starr co-wrote Carmen Rizzo's Beso, a song for the soundtrack of the acclaimed film Thirteen. 9. One of the most important decisions I made as a hip hop producer on one of my earliest beats was sampling the group Ulali to create the song, “Red%X”, a widely received song that has traveled further than I have. Kinnie Starr. At the time I was making mostly visual art: T-shirts, stickers and stencil art sprayed on walls and huge collage pieces glued up in parking lots. Wind In Your Sails is a lyrical riff on a photograph of her parents when they were near her age ("I will try to be a much better friend, a friend to you / I will try to see in you the beauty in the things you do, see the beauty that is you"); Not Enough is "about [my] niece and nephew being born, and wondering if the world will be good enough for them"; Up In Smoke chronicles a cousin's misadventures with a nameless West Coast record label ("The whole thing can go up in smoke / And it can make you sink or help you float"). Director: Stephanie Clattenburg. who stops long enough to listen SANDY SCOFIELD. red man white man ending beginning Kinnie Starr on women lifelines, Indigenous protest hip-hop, and half-blood old blues . She is trilingual (English, French and Spanish). Tegan and Sara's Tegan Quinn contributes vocals to the single La Le La La, which was mixed by Howard Redekopp (New Pornographers, A.C. Newman, 54-40). Like my previous Black Lives… Here’s a playlist dedicated to surveying new music from Indigenous artists across North America. From a girl’s perspective it was a bit tiring to only see men on the mic. (For the record: hip hop, rock, folk, R&B, electronica...anything.) 8. I would wait for my turn on the mic and when I would spit/sing, the crowd paid notice. Kinnie Starr. In the resulting upheaval, Starr felt she was lost in the shuffle and she asked to be released from her contract. The Kinnie Starr you already know: MC, singer, poet, actress, beatnik, musicmaker, who was born in Calgary. However, she was back home in Canada by the following year, where she continued to perform and record. View Article on Vancouver Sun “Well the world went pop/and all heads turned at once.” Starr signed with Mercury/Island/Def Jam in 1997, but Seagram's took over that group three years later, and Kinnie got lost when her music took a back seat to big whiskey's bottom line, so she asked for her freedom, got it, and made Tune-Up (2000). Alida Kinnie Starr is one of Canada’s most adored and critically acclaimed underground musicians. Starr was born and raised in Calgary, where she attended Western Canada High School. The material she recorded for her first album with Island Def Jam, 1998's Mending was never released, though some record labels have talked of releasing the lost album. “BEAUTY IS NOT POWER IT’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SELLER”, “TELEVALIUM SEDATES YOU” and “HERO?” slapped up on war heroes are some examples of the street art I used to do. She performed at the 2005 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. Starr signed to major label group Island/Def Jam in 1997, following a massive bidding war during which Clive Davis personally flew out to dine the young artist to try and sign her to his roster of pop stars. Jacks of which trade though made up the depressor?” More than ten years later I continue to write about love, identity, family and history. Starr appeared as a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show on 11 August 2006. Discovered she could kick it live one night in NYC (1993), when an open mic called, and the crowd carried her through three blazing encores ("edgy... enchanting," said the New Yorker). 2016: "Play Your Gender" (host, curator & co-producer). The same year Kinnie earned a Juno nomination for Best New Artist.

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