Thirty-one year old Ottawa musician and rapper Mxlclm X (Malcolm X) sat down with the Ottawa Reflections podcast at Up and Up Studios on Bank Street to talk about how producing music helped him through some of the toughest times in his life. He started writing when he was thirteen years old and as he… Read more »
Coach Jacob Powrie joined us at Viva Recording Studios this fall for the Ottawa Reflections podcast, where we profile emerging talent and community leaders in the nation’s capital. With a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Ottawa and thirteen years of experience in conditioning and varsity training, he currently coaches out of Iron Viking… Read more »
O5EAN (Ocean) is an Ottawa singer, songwriter and perhaps most of all a performer with an acute and even striking sense of style and image. His music videos engage all your senses, as he appears in masks of every variety, dark suits with a matching dark demeanor, shiny black dress shoes – and sometimes even… Read more »
In this Ottawa Reflections podcast, Christopher Adam speaks with Coach William Davenport at Viva Recording Studios. Coach Davenport, the founder of WillPower, is a 25 year old man who experienced trauma in his own childhood, but then found new hope, support and purpose in his passion for basketball and helping at-risk youth in the Canadian… Read more »
Music has been an important part of 27 year old Donaven Demers’ life for as long as he can remember. He grew up in a home where musical instruments and singing were always nearby, and where his parents and grandparents appreciated a wide range of genres. Donaven is building a reputation for himself through his… Read more »
Ethan Orser, known by his artist name Ozone, began to immerse himself in rap, particularly producing it, when he turned 17. Having people around him who encouraged him to freestyle made all the difference – it convinced him to begin honing his skills. Taking inspiration from artists like Eminem, J. Cole, or the late American… Read more »
On a wintry night in January, with black ice coating the pavement, I drove out to the eastern Ontario town of Hawkesbury to meet with Josh Ceasor, known to his audience as YRT Ceasor. There’s that gratingly overused phrase of something having “gone viral,” yet how I found this young artist in the first place… Read more »
Devon Brown has spent nearly all of his life in eastern Ontario and mostly in the Cornwall area. He’s a young man who has experienced his fair share of struggle, but who now seeks to chart a new, more hopeful course in life. The thread that binds his past, present and future is his passion… Read more »
Originally from Ireland, twenty-six year old musician Matthew Oliver relocated to Canada right on the threshold of the pandemic – on March 5th, 2020, quite literally one week before everything got locked down. He was born in Dublin, but came-of-age in a rural region called Meath. The desire to travel, rather than establish permanent roots… Read more »
Jay White started producing and recording music in eastern Ontario in 2007 – initially, mostly as a hobby. But beginning in 2014, this passion for working with musicians grew into a profession. White knew instinctively that connecting with recording artists only over email and the internet wasn’t enough. Building an in-person connection was always the… Read more »