You can walk out with other people’s networks, too, because everyone connects. It’s cool because everyone there has the same objective of building up their portfolio and learning, and everyone ends up pushing each other. If you don’t have the connections or you don’t have the network to get involved in your world-if you’re a photographer, if you’re a videographer, a singer, anything-they take you in.
To be specific, it’s an art incubator for at-risk youth from the age of 16 to 24, and they have one in Toronto and one in Chicago. JESSIE REYEZ: I would say that The Remix Project changed my life. Can you tell me how you became involved and what you took away from it? HALEY WEISS: I’d love to hear a little bit about The Remix Project, because I know that was a big part of you starting your career. Tonight she performs a sold-out show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Masonic Lodge in Los Angeles, and on July 7 she’ll wrap her tour on her home turf in Toronto. When Interview spoke to Reyez by phone last week, she was on the road in a van heading westward. Her pursuits as a songwriter and creator began in earnest in 2014, when she returned to Toronto and joined The Remix Project, a collaborative center of art that ultimately connected her to the likes of King Louie and Chance the Rapper. Higgins), Reyez wrote and performed often over the years, busking in her hometown and sharing songs on Facebook before moving to Miami with her family and becoming a bartender. She saw that I really liked music and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.” Thanks to her family’s support and a middle school English teacher encouraging her to write poetry (credit to Mrs. “My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera,” the Toronto native recalls. Music has been a part of Reyez’s life since before she can even remember. Today, the 26-year-old is headlining her first tour, building off of the April release of her commanding yet vulnerable debut EP Kiddo (FMLY), in which she announced herself as an artist all her own, not just for others. Three years ago, Jessie Reyez was in Sweden at a songwriting workshop, crafting hits to pitch major artists and making her own music on the side. HAIR: MARTIN-CHRISTOPHER HARPER FOR PLATFORM|NYC USING R+CO.
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