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Artist
Iskwē
12+ albums
canadaCanadianindigenous pop
about
iskwē (Cree syllabics: ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ, formerly transliterated IsKwé) (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning "blue sky woman" in English) (born Meghan Meisters in Winnipeg in 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist. She has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto, and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She released her debut album Iskwé in 2013. Her debut single "Nobody Knows," produced by The Darcys and featured in the Netflix series Between, focused on the Missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis in Canada. Her second album, The Fight Within, was released in 2017. In 2018, she received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Healers". The Fight Within garnered a win at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards (WCMA) for Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year, she also received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018 and was long-listed for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize. Her third album, acākosīk, was released on 8 November 2019. The album won a Juno Award for Music Video of the Year for the song Little Star directed by Sarah Legault and was a Juno Award nominee for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020. Her song "Breaking Down" was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize and the video PRISM Prize. iskwē's fourth album The Stars was released 5 March 2021 and is a "reimagination" of her album acākosīk (saying that "the stars" is English for acākosīk) featuring new arra
