TATE McRAE
Teen dance star. Future pop idol. First song, “One Day,” blew up immediately on YouTube. With her single, “tear myself apart,” signed to RCA Records.
Watch the video for “tear myself apart.”
STEPHANIE KOWAL
Emerging, L.A.-based composer. Won SOCAN Foundation Award for Best Original Theme in 2018. One of eight winning composers in the Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival in 2018. Assistant to Emmy-nominated composer Tony Morales. Worked on NBC’s Scorpion and Disney’s Elena of Avalor.
Watch the trailer for “Sir John A and the Anti Quenched.”
Nk.F
A.K.A. Nikola Feve. Renowned EDM producer, mixer, masterer, and sound engineer. Part of TrackBastardz collective with Cris Dop. Has co-created hugely successful music by Booba, Damso, Orelsan, Kobo, Niska and PNL. Regularly tops the charts. Brings weight, evolution to Francophone hip-hop.
Watch the video for PNL’s “Au DD.”
MANILA GREY
Filipino-Canadian singer-rapper duo of childhood friends Soliven and Neeko. Active together since 2016. Make “West Coast wave” music influenced by their Southeast Asian heritage. Every song produced by azel north. More than 26 million cumulative streams.
Watch the video for “Silver Skies.”
LOU-ADRIANE CASSIDY
For her debut album of 2019, C’est la fin du monde à tous les jours, Cassidy wrote daringly truthful songs about the daily nature of death, the small things that slip through our fingers, memories that never fade, and what’s left when our heart’s been emptied. Having sung backup for Hubert Lenoir, she now turns heads in Europe as well as Québec, moving from ’70s pop to languid French chanson.
Watch the video for “ La pluie ne tombe jamais sur toi.”
SHAY LIA
First grabbed attention by singing on Kaytranada’s 2016 Polaris Prize-winning album 99.9%. Now a long-listed Polaris nominee herself, the French-Djboutian vocalist’s Dangerous EP is a stunning piece of contemporary R&B. It features Buddy, BadBadNotGood, and yes, Kaytranada. She’s poised to conquer.
Watch the video for “Good Together.”