And if she’s not exactly a household name abroad, recognition of her talents has still been even slower to come in Toronto and Canada in general. “No, I didn’t always embrace Toronto the way that I should have,” she contends, while soaking up the sun on the beach at Ontario Place one recent sweltering afternoon. And right now it’s starting to feel right to return to music. I’ve always felt really uncomfortable onstage so me going onstage was a way to test myself to do something that really terrifies me,” she says. “I’ve seen a lot of people struggle with these ‘ego deaths’ during COVID but I didn’t need to be seen to have my existence verified.

Source: The Star May 21, 2022 04:01 UTC