Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

There's just these bounds of superficiality in North America where we are taught to look a certain way and act a certain way and all too often we are just so afraid of who we actually are.

I sing about political accountability and revisiting ideas about democracy and I also open my heart in my songs.

I did start writing about global politics way at the beginning. Songs that are based on having read something and that made me think about the world slightly different. I would write songs based on that new inspiration.

I've been pursuing music as a career for 12 years. It's been a long time.

rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture.