Ekelle is an artist and songwriter from Toronto. Ekelle rhymes about what she knows best: her real-life experience! Key music themes include money, sex, drama, and identity through a black feminist lens. Her genre of choice is a style that she created called Hood Pop – Popular music with a street edge. Hood Pop combines elements of hip-hop, pop music, and R&B.
This allows for a dynamic experience where some songs may be a bit different from each other, but still represent her uniqueness and love for music of many genres. Ekelle enjoys candidly rapping out her real lived experience and/or playing with metaphor and simile as she sings. Her 2023 song ‘Flo’, produced by Andre Kaden Black and Jon Karkar is her most streamed on Spotify, receiving acclaim as one of Complex’s ‘Best Canadian Tracks of the Week’ and was played on Vibe 105 and Flow 98.7 as well as various college and community stations.
As an artist at Cymba Music Publishing Ekelle has garnered placements with Hudson and Rex (2022, 2023), The Stanley Cup Finals (2022), a ZARA France mobile ad (2022), and Popularity Papers, (2023). Ekelle is an active member of the music industry, having completed the Digital Music Management Internship program with TMU led by Liam Killeen (2021), the RBC Launchpad Music Entrepreneurship Program (2023), and participating in SOCAN’s Song Camp Mondays (2023).
