![]() “I didn’t know if I would succeed at it,” she says of pursuing life as a tunesmith and performer. ![]() (She has stated in the past that her aversion to killing her fellow humans put the kibosh on any aspirations of becoming a sniper.) In fact, Kiesza joined the Royal Canadian Navy at 17, honing skills as a code breaker and a marksman. ![]() Not bad for someone who hasn’t always seen making music full-time as a career goal. She recently worked on a new song with Duran Duran, and a couple of numbers she wrote are in consideration for the next Rihanna album. She’s the featured vocalist on “Take U There”, the debut single from Jack Ü (aka superstar producers Diplo and Skrillex), for example, and she sings on the Joey Bada$$ cut “Teach Me”. That audience is expanding all the time, thanks in part to Kiesza’s collaborations with other artists. They’d never heard it before, so they felt like they had a whole new sound, whereas other people felt nostalgic from their past. I feel like what happened, sort of unintentionally, was that a lot of people felt nostalgia from some of the music I was making, whereas a lot of the younger kids, it was brand-new to them. “My mom was the one who kept that era playing in our household, because she still loved it. “The early ’90s was even a little before my time, because I was a baby in the early ’90s,” she says. The singer, who was born in 1989, notes that even she doesn’t remember when tracks like “Finally” and “What Is Love?” ruled the dance floor. The artist formerly known as Kiesa Rae Ellestad admits that her callbacks to a bygone era might be lost on her younger fans. That’s not necessarily what I’m going for all the time, but with my last album I was paying homage to the ’90s era that I really love and grew up with, but taking it to a more fresh, modern place.” “I like to take throwback sounds and make them modern. “I like to call my style a sort of throwback to the future,” Kiesza says with a laugh when the Straight connects with her at a tour stop in Las Vegas. The Calgary-born performer, who had a sizable hit last year with “Hideaway”-showcasing both her powerhouse pipes and her affinity for house beats-presumably takes comparisons to the likes of CeCe Peniston and Lisa Stansfield as high praise. In reviewing the singer’s breakthrough LP-the multiple-Juno winner Sound of a Woman- Spin’s Brennan Carley called it “one of the most elastic albums of the 1990s”, while the Guardian compared it to “Top of the Pops in 1992”. Send us feedback about these examples.Listeners have found Kiesza’s music to be a tad on the retro side, and she’s okay with that. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'tunesmith.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2019 As is detailed in a booklet Mehr penned for the box set, the 30-year-old tunesmith had started incorporating more allegory and other literary techniques in his tunes. 2021 And in the end, even the tunesmith can be overruled songwise. 2021 In a virtual awards unveiling, Nashville tunesmith Josh Osborne was named songwriter of the year by the ASCAP Country Music Awards for the first time. 2022 The show at its core is still pretty enjoyable for a dark fantasy, and the reappearance of rock-star tunesmith Jaskier (Joey Batey), plus new characters like the flame-conjuring rogue mage Rience (Chris Fulton), help in that regard. 2022 Back in England, John was a skilled, hardworking piano player and tunesmith who had tried for years to gain a foothold in the business, with middling results. 2023 Schubert, of course, is the most natural tunesmith, his vocal lines alternately caressing, declaiming and recoiling from the words’ images and emotional implications. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2023 Enter Diane Warren, professional movie tunesmith and perpetual Oscar nominee. Recent Examples on the Web As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium.
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