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Q: What do you get if you cross a Canadian-Indian, Jamaican, French and Swedish genetics?
A: Kinny
You can pigeonhole her heritage as much as you can pigeonhole her music. That’s the best way you can describe her style – yes, she’s a Neo Soul artist so to speak, but in reality she’s a great deal more.
Take a journey through her album ‘Idle Forest of Chit Chat’ and you’ll hear music which has taken influence from, well, everywhere.
Her confidence in delivery is perhaps a derivative of paying her dues on the Live scene – only singing to live, unforgiving audiences can allow you to produce a solo debut of such individual style and confidence. She takes on raw funk tracks in collabo with the likes of the Quantic Soul Orchestra who add their trade mark instrumental sound – Kinny duly steps up to the plate.
She exudes this expressive attitude consistently – being soulful, angry and cheeky all at once, whilst seeming to ride beats with effortless grace. In some cases her timing makes me feel like she laid her vocal down first and the musicians used her acapella as a metronome to record their respective instrumentals.


Elements of contemporary jazz resonate throughout the entire album and no one song sounds the same.

I don’t feel it’s necessary to go on, suffice to say that you should hear for yourself, and as luck would have it, this link will take you to a place where you can get your own album sampler... just remember to delete once you’ve heard it and buy it yourself, support the artist.