Artists
ArtHaus is a full service record label, management and music company, incubator for innovation, and collaborative community of music creators and professionals.
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ADRIA KAIN
Label
Soul-filled and honest, Adria Kain takes from her own lived experiences, both painful & joyful, to share stories of love, resilience, embracing her identity as a queer, masc-presenting Black woman, and more. In full command of her spectacular voice, Kain's approach is restrained yet filled with a quiet confidence. The deeply felt collection of songs out today details her experience of reconnecting with nature to heal old wounds, grow into the most authentic version of herself, and just let go.
Heavily influenced by the likes of Frank Ocean, SZA, Nick Hakim, Dijon, among others - not just for their sound, but also for their ability to masterfully create a visual story through music - Kain has garnered praise from the likes of Fader, Complex, SPIN, and more. She's opened for BJ The Chicago Kid, Miguel, Ari Lennox and Questlove, featured on PARTYNEXTDOOR’s self-titled second album, and steadily built a name for herself throughout the Toronto scene.
SERENA RYDER
Label + Management
Toronto-based vocal powerhouse Serena Ryder is a platinum-selling artist adored by fans, peers and critics alike, in part due to her raw and earnest songwriting, and beautifully electric live performances. She has received numerous accolades, including six JUNO Awards, and was the 2021 Allan Slaight Music Impact recipient for Canada’s Walk of Fame. With her newest album, The Art of Falling Apart, Serena invites listeners to join her mental wellness journey and helps us understand the importance of sitting with the uncomfortable moments and the wisdom in their messages. Over a driving pop sound bursting with irresistible rhythms, pulsing bass lines, and the full range of her powerful and expressive voice, she pulls listeners through her own winding, transformational journey, detailing despair, toxic relationships, and breakdowns alongside hope, joy, and big, big love.
TALK
Management
“Show love to everyone you meet, because you don’t know what they’re going through or where they’ve come from.”
This is the guiding principle for TALK’s life. The singer-songwriter is a mass of positive energy, colour and enthusiasm, bringing a smile to the face of everyone he connects with. Inspired by artists like Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Guns N Roses, TALK is a modern rockstar — bright and bold with a powerful voice. His TikTok covers of legendary tracks like “House of the Rising Sun” have generated hundreds of thousands of views and followers. Users are enamoured with his voice and style, and are now asking for original music.
BLAIR LEE
Label
Blair Lee is driven by her feelings.
That momentum comes through in the soft ways her music explores the darkness that comes before the light, in the cinematic promise of a happier ending. Blair uses her lyrics to work through the things she doesn’t understand and the places she doesn’t fit in. Through some of the sadness, hope and warmth always make their way through. Her songs perfectly pair a delicate vocal style with her penchant for 90s style electric guitars and the kind of stark honesty that evokes a gentle nostalgia.
Blair finds inspiration in the little things: her friends, interesting strangers, walks in the woods, moments of stillness, small towns, and quiet thoughts. She’s drawn to stories and the ways that music can shape and hold them. Her debut EP, The Puppy Game, is available everywhere now.
Nicolette is romantic about retro Western music; she speaks with a soft grit, a warm and distinguished rattle that lends her observations weight. Performing, she loosens into an unabashed howl, a fluid force turning upward at the edges with unmistakable twang. She keeps her lyrics no-nonsense—earthy comments on the human condition, floridity be damned. She reserves her flamboyance and flair for onstage attire—cowboy hats, fringed vests with matching hot pants, boots by all accounts made for walking.
By conservatory convention, Nicolette took piano lessons as a child, playing classical and eventually moving into Jazz. Throughout her adolescence, she discovered a love for icons like Shania Twain, Celine Dion, and Bright Eyes, and eventually dropped Jazz altogether. In its wake, Nicolette found something far more resonant.
Nicolette attributes her marked boldness to encouragement from The Nobodies. The Nobodies are Ian Bain on lead guitar, Daniel Paillé on drums, and Emma Howarth-Withers on bass.
Writing “The Long Way”, Nicolette took a period to thoughtfully relish the opportunities before her and to reckon with her role as a woman of color in a predominately white, male genre. The result is a collection of personal and adventurous songs.
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The Art Of…
"The Art Of…" is a project birthed from the collaboration of 8 Black artists of different cultural and genric backgrounds. This project is the paradigm for the innovation that ArtHaus facilitates, through merging each distinct song into one cohesive piece that still left room for the artists to showcase their individual musical styles and messages.
The project drew from a wide spectrum of genres, from R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap to Folk, Psychedelia, and Experimental Electronica to create a blend of truly incredible songs for an unforgettable listening experience. We called in Grammy-winning producer Chin Injeti to help us bring this vision to life.
ArtHaus wants to support artists nationwide. Thus, all 8 artists—Sadé Awele, Desiree Dawson, IAMTHELIVING, Bukola, Iman Wamboi, Teon Gibbs, Phen Ray, and Chlose—are based out of BC.