Step into the lush and heart wrenching sounds of Edzi’u, an innovative sound and performance artist, producer, and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, community voices and words, and her ethereal voice. Being rich in culture, full of passion and spirit, the power behind their use of sound goes deep within the listener, inspiring them to be bold and genuine, while living fully within their hearts. Edzi’u has a style and sound like no other, a quiet icon in the landscape of Indigenous music on Turtle Island.
Edzi’u is Tahltan and Taku River Tlingit. She was born and mostly raised in Whitehorse, YT, spending a large part of that time in her Tahltan traditional territory of Dease Lake, BC. She received a Bachelors of Applied Music in Composition with a Classical Voice Minor in 2019. Edzi’u has been performing nationally for the better part of ten years, in festivals, cafes, bars and street corners. Her debut album, Kime Ani, samples audio from vintage recordings of her grandmothers’ stories. Kime Ani has been featured in imagineNATIVE’s 2018, 2019 and 2020 audio selections, CBC Radio’s reclaimed in 2019 and 2020, and True Calling Media’s short doc: Edzi’u, Sound Artist and Indigenous Storyteller. Edzi’u strives to hold spaces for community in her work and artistic process while fully encompassing her views and colonial inheritance as a twenty-first century 2spirt person.