Kiesza
Kiesza
Kiesa Rae Ellestad, known professionally as Kiesza, is a Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist from Calgary, who has most recently worked in New York City and London...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusician
CountryCanada
legs wear
To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.
Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.
related until wrote
It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.
brings constantly experience life
Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.
anyone believe hard work
I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
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I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
age ballerina classic injury three trained
From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story moment, where I had an injury and had to give up my dream.
fit job paved stick
In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.
beautiful beauty
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Once you start getting to that world where you're using sexuality to try to propel something, you're losing the moment. You've lost; people are not focusing on that anymore.
exploring limited music soft
When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
ears classical-music music-is
You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
humming melodies songs static written
When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.
dating desire emptiness interest music passions pursue teenage weird worried
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.