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iskwē | |
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Birth name | Meghan Meisters |
Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Origin | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | singer-songwriter |
Website |
iskwe |
iskwē ( Cree syllabics: ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ, formerly transliterated IsKwé) (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning "blue sky woman" in English) [1] (born Meghan Meisters, [2] 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist. [3]
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, iskwē has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto, and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. [4]
iskwē is a Cree Métis and a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, a federally recognized Métis government. [5]
She released her debut album Iskwé in 2013. [6] Her debut single "Nobody Knows," produced by The Darcys and featured in the Netflix series Between, focused on the Missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis in Canada. [7]
Her second album, The Fight Within, was released in 2017. [8] In 2018, she received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Healers". [9] The Fight Within garnered a win at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards (WCMA) for Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year, she also received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018 and was longlisted for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize. [10] [7] [11]
Her third album, acākosīk, was released on 8 November 2019. [12] The album won a Juno Award for Music Video of the Year for the song Little Star directed by Sarah Legault [13] and was a Juno Award nominee for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020. [14] Her song "Breaking Down" was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize and the video PRISM Prize. [15]
iskwē's fourth album The Stars was released 5 March 2021 and is a "reimagination" of her album acākosīk (saying that "the stars" is English for acākosīk. [16]) featuring new arrangements (by Darren Fung) of six songs with iskwē accompanied by a trio of piano (Michael Shand), cello (Mariel Gonzalez), and violin (Laura C Bates) recorded live-of-the-floor at Revolution Recording [17] in Toronto and an orchestral arrangement of “Night Danger (Lovers Mix)” recorded with the FILMharmonic Orchestra (Prague). [18]
Iskwé Album Tracks [20]
The Fight Within Album Tracks [21]
acākosīk Album Tracks [22]
The Stars Album Tracks [23]
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iskwē | |
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Birth name | Meghan Meisters |
Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Origin | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | singer-songwriter |
Website |
iskwe |
iskwē ( Cree syllabics: ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ, formerly transliterated IsKwé) (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning "blue sky woman" in English) [1] (born Meghan Meisters, [2] 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist. [3]
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, iskwē has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto, and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. [4]
iskwē is a Cree Métis and a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, a federally recognized Métis government. [5]
She released her debut album Iskwé in 2013. [6] Her debut single "Nobody Knows," produced by The Darcys and featured in the Netflix series Between, focused on the Missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis in Canada. [7]
Her second album, The Fight Within, was released in 2017. [8] In 2018, she received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Healers". [9] The Fight Within garnered a win at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards (WCMA) for Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year, she also received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018 and was longlisted for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize. [10] [7] [11]
Her third album, acākosīk, was released on 8 November 2019. [12] The album won a Juno Award for Music Video of the Year for the song Little Star directed by Sarah Legault [13] and was a Juno Award nominee for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020. [14] Her song "Breaking Down" was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize and the video PRISM Prize. [15]
iskwē's fourth album The Stars was released 5 March 2021 and is a "reimagination" of her album acākosīk (saying that "the stars" is English for acākosīk. [16]) featuring new arrangements (by Darren Fung) of six songs with iskwē accompanied by a trio of piano (Michael Shand), cello (Mariel Gonzalez), and violin (Laura C Bates) recorded live-of-the-floor at Revolution Recording [17] in Toronto and an orchestral arrangement of “Night Danger (Lovers Mix)” recorded with the FILMharmonic Orchestra (Prague). [18]
Iskwé Album Tracks [20]
The Fight Within Album Tracks [21]
acākosīk Album Tracks [22]
The Stars Album Tracks [23]