Kiesza

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Episode 227 - Platinum selling Canadian pop star Kiesza is a former Navy sniper (you read that right!), ballet dancer, beauty queen and, in more ways than one, the Calgary-raised singer and songwriter is unique. She has written for Rihanna and Jennifer Hudson, worked with Duran Duran and collaborated with Skrillex, Pitbull and Diplo. Her debut album, Sound of A Woman, sold more than a million copies and then the two-time JUNO Award seemingly vanished overnight. Hit by a taxi in her adopted hometown of Toronto in the summer of 2017, Kiesza initially thought she had escaped lightly with just a bang to the head and a busted wrist. It wasn’t until the following day that her head began to swell and the balance on the left side of her body went. Tests revealed that electrical pathways to one side of her brain had shut down and the following years meant a gruelling road to recovery for Kiesza as she recovered from the brain injury. 2020 marks a rebirth for Kiesza. After spending 2 years recovering from her injuries she is back and ready to embrace the female pop landscape with a bunch of incredibly catchy tunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm a man. Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of Lead Singer Syndrome. I am your host, as always, Shane told. So nice to have you as, well, shit's
0:50.6	gotten pretty real out there.
0:52.7	If it wasn't real before, it certainly is real now.
0:56.6	I hope everybody is staying safe and all that stuff.
1:02.1	I don't even really know what to say about it, you know?
1:04.0	It's hard. It's hard to know what to say as a white heterosexual male from Canada.
1:13.2	Obviously I don't know if I'm supposed to say anything
1:17.5	but people sometimes want to know what I think so
1:21.8	I'll do my best to tell you I guess and what I think is that
1:28.0	this is a long time coming this most recent injustice and the murder of George Floyd has brought it to the forefront
1:39.8	Where it should have never left and now this is what is happening and it's a lot for people to take in
1:49.0	but what I really think people need to be aware of, especially if they are people like me, people of
1:58.3	privilege.
2:00.2	That is that pointing out that there is violence,
2:05.8	pointing out that not all cops are bad,
2:08.8	pointing out that looting is bad,
2:11.6	all those things that you might be pointing out, I'm not saying they're not true, but we
2:20.6	need to think about the whole reason why this started in the first place.
2:25.0	And really that is what the focus should be on.
2:30.0	And yes, there are bad things happening as a result.
2:36.0	The police also though, I mean,
2:38.2	they're doing police brutality at the police brutality protest.
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