Kinnie Starr

Kinnie Starr first entered the public eye in the mid nineties when she signed a record deal with Mercury/island/DefJam (1997).  Starr has been producing and engineering since the start of her professional career in 1996, and founded one of the first female-run record labels in Canada.  In 2004, she was nominated in the Best New Artist category at the Juno Awards, and won a Juno as a producer for Digging Roots’ “We Are”. which won Aboriginal Album of the Year in 2010.  The anti-star’s Starr, Kinnie has made a career out of sidestepping celebrity machinery. Starr creates raw, intuitive material that straddles the lines between folk, rap, art-pop and poetry.

In recent years, her work has expanded to film, as researcher/writer/producer of Play Your Gender, a film that addresses the gender gap in the music industry, and writing the original score for Edge of the Knife, the first Haida language feature film and winner of Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival.  Through the pandemic she released three singles and is presently working on her 9th studio album, to be released in 2023.