Kiesza

New York dwelling Canadian Kiesza pays homage to those singers she admired as a child — Michael Jackson, Martha Wash, CeCe Peniston and Robin S — with deep house grooves and shimmering soulful melodies, while adding in more recent influences like Disclosure and Hot Natured to conjure an irresistible hybrid musical sensibility.

There are no half measures for Kiesza. A committed artist whose extraordinary ambition is matched only by her unusual clarity of vision and overwhelming talent, this former queen of the high seas has spent years plotting a course to the epicenter of pop.