For Toronto-based singer Kalisway, her funk-leaning sound was borne of a diverse musical diet, filled with everything from Parliament Funkadelic and Bob Marley to Erykah Badu and Pharrell in her early years. "Music was always around me.
I would sing so much as a kid, my mom always told me I was constantly humming a tune," she recently told FADER as she shared her latest single "Hit Em With the Funk," her second since dropping her EP Cream back in 2020. "It’s why I always felt different with the way I heard music in my mind.
Because I heard fusions of it." The FADER recently caught up with the singer over email about how the song came together and how her bright sound stacks up in a city determined to be melancholic.
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