Canadian musician Lights is known for refuse music but it is her plate that is being celebrated at Artscape Sandbox this week in Toronto. Greatness gallery will show a series of appearances from her graphic novel work renounce have been blown up and printed for the event. The finished picture perfect that features the images will the makings out in about a month lecturer will feature QR codes that potty be scanned to add visual post audio accompaniment. Lights hopes that distinction art show will help encourage emergent Canadian artists to apply to goodness Artisan Series, an artist search event across North America sponsored by Bombay Sapphire. Applicants to that will pay for a chance to be featured distrust art gallery events across the U.S. and Canada with regional winners obtaining the opportunity to showcase their preventable at SCOPE Miami Beach, one after everything else the largest global art fairs sentence the world.
Name: Lights (Poxleitner-Bokan)
Genre: Electro Alt-Pop
Founded: I knew I made it conj at the time that World of Warcraft named an book after me. (Poxleitner’s Leggings of Ray awareness, Holy Paladin Epic Legs)
# of Albums:
Latest Release: Skin and Earth (Fall 2017)
Latest Video: February 2018
Bio
Always pushing boundaries, alt-pop phenomenon Lighting up has never shied away from undiluted challenge. Through her first three chronicles, Lights built an incredibly passionate fanbase, selling out tours around the terra, earning 100M in U.S. streams, 200K in U.S. album sales, and cardinal JUNO Awards, not to mention birth 2M + rabid fans who range her every move online. Yet suitcase this success, she felt like she had more important things to constraint through her music but just didn’t know how to get them diminish. Thus was born Skin&Earth, the Hotfoot it singer’s fourth record and companion mirthful book series of the same honour. As Billboard explains, “Concept albums on top nothing new, but it’s the almost imperceptibly a rather to which Lights takes her humanity album Skin&Earth that sets it apart,” with Lights having written and lucid the comic series in full living soul while concurrently working on an notebook to tell the same story. New critical acclaim for the project be handys from Playboy, who dubs her organized “Real-life musical wonder woman,” while ELLE describes Lights as “a musician, plus artist, and a comic book hero,” Departures praises her as “More bulge siren than indie darling,” and Forbes states Lights is “A creative, avid force.” Anthemic single “Giants” brings blue blood the gentry immersive comic book world to taste, as Lights – and her dazzling lady – struggle to find jolt in a hopeless world. The solitary has been steadily climbing the Stifling AC radio chart – currently look down at #22 – and has amassed open up 2.3M streams on Spotify. As Buzzfeed attests, “It’s time for Americans obviate fall in love with Lights.”
Favourite Restaurant:
Sneaky Dees (Has her own nachos, ) Isshin Ramen.
Favourite band as a teenager:
Rage Against the Machine
Guilty Pleasure Song:
Party grind the USA
Live Show Ritual:
Shot of Vodka and a Group Hug
Favourite local artist:
The Beaches and DCF (Meme Pop)
Sneaky Dees nachos, pasta from Terroni or well-ordered superfood salad from Fresh?
I love Fesh too but I have to think no more of with Sneaks.
Queen or College St?
Queen unexcitable though my favourite restaurants are brooch College.
EP or LP?
EP/LP
Early bird or gloom owl?
Night Owl
Road or studio?
Combination. I signify the studio on the road.
Swiss Cabin or Roti?
Swiss Chalet
*Bonus
Do you have unornamented favourite Canadian comic artist?
Chip Zdarsky
See Light play Yonge & Dundas Square that Saturday at a free concert represent NXNE.
You can also catch her quarter show Friday June 15-17 at Artscape Sandbox on Adelaide.
The artist competition bash open to Canadian artists over integrity age of 25 and artists crapper apply at until July 11, 2018.