The Auntie Lanette Show: Recent Episodes
Lanette Ware-Bushfield
Positive, energetic and freewheeling Auntie Lanette, spitballs this pay it forward podcast sponsored by RAISE/OBIAA that will dig into the nitty gritty of all things music and art from hip hop and punk to the process of painting, one half hour at a time. Featuring hilarious and fun interviews that explore the creative lives of musical and visual artists across the GTA, Auntie Lanette and her guests will share new projects, stories and anecdotes about how their work builds community throughout the hustle and bustle of the big city! Listeners are given live, front row access to sample music, invitations to shows and exhibits and other insider promo materials! Light and refreshing, this weekly podcast is for the creatives who dedicate their lives to layering the fabric of your soul with the colour and beats that make you move your feet! Launching in the Fall of 2022, Auntie Lanette says: "It’s equally important to hear artists talk as it is to see them play or dine on their masterpieces hanging from walls!” So sit back, tune in and support local talent who stay true to themselves so they can stay true to you!
Mandy Mayhem may have first caught your attention rapping to JayZ in a viral video of one of her TikTok live streams, or you may have seen her Big Momma freestyle a few months later, or if you're a Chris Brown fan, you saw him share her A Milli freestyle on his IG.Regardless of where you first saw her, what is guaranteed is that you couldn't look away. A 48 year old, gray-haired white woman with that level of skill and passion for an artform not usually attributed to women of her age, sex and race is inspiring to most, shocking to many, and has been downright upsetting to some. Power 106, Genius, WorldStar Hip Hop have all shared her videos while artists like 50 Cent, Erick Sermon (EPMD), Chris Brown, Just Blaze, Pete Rock, FatLip, Big Daddy Kane, Tyler the Creator, Freeway, Havoc (Mobb Deep), Keith Shocklee (PE), Michael Rapaport, and SZA have all had something to say about her freestyles. In the 12 months since her first TikTok stream she has taken turns going viral on Instagram, Twitter (x), and TikTok, has amassed an estimated 40 million views, and over 300k followers without releasing a single song. UNTIL TODAY!LEGENDARY, is a celebration of the vivacity that lives behind the eyes of every women who has learned to harness her sensual power, of the ability of an experienced lover to liquify her partner, and of a very particular aspect of Mayhem's anatomy that she is quite fond of. It's also the curation into one song of a year of freestyles, where Mayhem took special notice of the lines that her fans sung back to her in comments and at shows. “I feel this song is a co-creation with the audience. Every time I performed a freestyle or posted a video, I listened to what the audience responded to and created a song with almost all of their favorite lines.” she said.The song is a celebration of the evolution of sexuality in an aging woman, a theme in all of Mayhem's work. And, if you listen a little deeper, you will hear her curiosity as she attempts to deconstruct the messaging we have all received through the hypersexualized lens of popular music, especially rap.Produced by G1fted Music out of Philly, it is a song that captures a special moment in Mandy Mayhem's journey (she has been rapping publically for 15 years) and the magnificence of what these new platforms have opened up; the opportunity for a 48 year old woman to prove that It's Never Too Late to Be Who You May Have Been, and that the longer your life is; the more square footage you have to experience intimacy with.
www.mandymaycheetham.com
Streaming and Pre Save Links for LEGENDARY 11/01: http://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mandymayhem1/legendary/YouTube Link for Video Drop 11/15: coming soon - subscribe to be notified www.youtube.com/mandamurheadLinkTree: https://linktr.ee/mandamurheadInstagram: https://instagram.com/mandamurheadTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msmandymaycheethamYouTube: https://youtube.com/@MandaMurheadPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/mandymayhem TikTok One Year Anniversary Live Stream 11/01/23 at 7PST/10EST: https://www.tiktok.com/live/event/7291168072072134699?enter_from=share_link Mandy’s course The Time Trampoline: Time Management for Artistswww.pickfordcommunity.com
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Meet our Final Guest of Season 2: Sonia of Crochezcray (cro-chet-cray), a Neuro Spicy Mom of 2 and a fiber Artist and just all around creative.
Sonia has spent a great deal of her life masking alot of their personality, and sensitivity. She now accepts and supports herself and her brand empowers you to do the same. Sonia is a canabis consumer, who is spreading awareness of its extreme medicinal qualities through her designs and patterns. She is normalizing it's use and creating conversation. She also teaches Crochet and will be engaging in canabis tourism by offering Crochet canabis retreats, and local picnics.
Sonia is so happy to be her authentic self, and hopes her joy spreads to everyone she touches.
www.crochezcray.com
www. Youtube/crochezcray.ca
www.instagram/crochezcray.ca
www. Facebook.com/blackgirlscrochet
#crochet🍃 #thriftandflipcrochet #afrogrannysquare #blackgirlscrochetpage
Popular and accomplished Toronto based artist BIG DOWNEY has a unique sound, precise visual directing skills, a creative mind and a lot to offer the music industry. With two American tours under his belt, Downey has attended the BET awards, garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and is slowly taking the industry by storm. Having begun his early music writing career as a hobby, Downey has developed his musical expression, into a high level skill. Join us as we put BIG DOWNEY in the hot seat and listen to him handle tough topics like the often misrepresentation and exploitation of Black Woman in rap, how he's giving back to Gen Next, his love of The Supremes and his early days in Covenenant House!!! You don't want to miss this young talent discuss matters of his heart and his plans for his incredible future!
Watch his recent works here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nUtHriCnOnc&feature=shares
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3hzF09IjBFs&feature=shares
IG: @downey416
Popular and accomplished Toronto based artist BIG DOWNEY has a unique sound, great visual directing skills, creative mind and a lot to offer the music industry.With two American tours under his belt, Downey attended the BET awards, has garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and is slowly taking the industryby storm. He started writing music as a hobby which has now developed into a high level skill. With 6502 Spotify listeners, join us as we watch his rise to the top!!!
Janet Cull had an immediate impact on the Newfoundland and Labrador music scene upon her arrival in the early 2000’s with the album The Janet Cull Band, which earned MusicNL awards for “Album of the Year” and “Group of the Year”. Her next full-length release, People Get Ready, garnered an ECMA nomination. But it was Janet’s 2016 album Real Tough Love that found her reaching new heights. On top of bringing her three more MusicNL awards, it brought her to stages all across the world including opening spots for Marianas Trench and the legendary k.d. lang.In late 2021 Janet released her much anticipated new album, Hear It; an album that at its heart is a reflection of her (and our) often complicated relationships, expressed through a voice unlike any other in Canada. With a recent ECMA nomination for Soul Recording of the Year, and touring plans in 2022-23, Janet is now poised to make her mark everywhere.Beyond music, Janet has performed in a variety of musical theatre productions and in recent years Janet has begun making in-roads into film and television, including appearances in Frontiers (Netflix) in 2019 and the 2020 feature film, “Body and Bones”.
Social Media and Website Info:
Website: www.janetcull.com
Facebook: @janetcullmusic
Twitter: @janet_cull
Instagram: @janetcull
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9M3bb2ZTp_tHv2GkU0_Tg
Aadila Munshi is a professional artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. She is known for her evocative paintings of beautifully distressed urban surfaces. In her work, gritty urban textures and decay are uniquely juxtaposed with elegant marks and calligraphic forms.
A former Criminologist from the University of Cape Town, Aadila grew up in South Africa during the apartheid regime and paints from a deep sense of repressed voice. As such, she is inspired by street art as a powerful voice for social justice and equity. Her abstract expressions represent her perception of the push and pull between struggle, hope, and the ability to rise above.
She studied painting with a professional artist in her hometown and has been painting for over 25 years. In 2000, she moved to Toronto permanently, where she studied at the Toronto School of Art and
established her painting practice. Her work has been sold in North America, Australia, the U.K., and South Africa.
She recently completed a large-scale corporate commission for The Daniels Corporation of two over-sized pieces, measuring 14ft x 8ft each. The artwork is permanently installed in the lobby of The
Lighthouse East Tower in Toronto.
Links:
Website (with online shop – can be purchased directly):
www.aadilamunshi.ca
IG: @aadila_paints
As mentioned in our interview, Aadila will be exhibiting her latest collection of work at The Artist Project in Toronto. TAP is the leading (juried) art fair for Independent Canadian Artists. This ticketed fair runs from April 13-16th, 2023, at the Better Living Center in Toronto.Contact me for details.
Aadila's large Scale artwork can be viewed in the Lobby of The Lighthouse East Tower at 20 Richardson St, Toronto. She takes on commission work and usually has a waitlist - so we highly encourage you to get on it! Aadila releases a couple of new collections per year. Her mailing list gets exclusive first access to her newest paintings before they are released to the public. We encourage people to join her mailing list via her website and/or Instagram links listed above.
Aadila sends news of new work offerings and exhibits as a complimetary approach to her collections which each are accompanied by a written artist statement, revealing thoughts and inspirations behind each series.
Following her 2020 Debut EP Everything So Far Azaynia continues to hone her sound creating Pop driven R&B music with Jazz and Neo-soul influences. Her new single "SCARS" is anything short of that. Encapsulating raw and airy vocals, multi-layered melodic rhythms, powered by meaningful lyrics. Azaynia is excited about the release of her debut directorial music video debut "SCARS" OUT NOW !
SCARS Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
IG: @azayniamusic
Anthony Ricciardi is a renowned multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada that has travelled internationally showcasing his artwork and murals. His collections have been showcased globally in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Manchester, Puerto Rico, Antigua, Montreal and Sao Paolo. He has curated large scale artwork and clothing for notable celebrities such as Demi Lovato, Bad Bunny, Post Malone, Shaq and many more. Anthony has also collaborated with major brands such as Disney, Adidas, Coors Light and L’Oreal.
Anthony is more than just an artist and his story, isn’t your typical. He went to Alabama State University on a baseball scholarship and spent five years working as an analyst for an investment fund but decided to leave the comfort and clout of corporate finance to pursue his true passion; art.
Contact Anthony both at his website www.ricciardipaints.com and his instagram account: @ricciardipaints
Tasneem is a Multi-Disciplinary bi-lingual (English & French) Canadian Artist with roots in East Africa. Their focus is on music, acting, writing & filmmaking.They have performed at the AKF Inaugural Gala, Art Basel alongside the late Zaha Hadid and LA’s Grand Performances, sharing stages with Martha Wainwright, Seun Kuti, and Baloji. Tasneem has spent time as a music producer mentor at Daniels Launchpad Artscape in Toronto, focusing on women and non binary musicians and producers. They participated in OutFest InFusion NBC/Universal emerging filmmakers program.Their short film September 10th was awarded a Grant from The Canada Council for the Arts and was chosen to be a part of a workshop held at the John Humphrey Center for Peace and Human Rights. September 10th which Tasneem wrote, directed, starred in, produced and composed the music to, will debut at film festivals this Fall. Tasneem seeks to create work and tell stories that amplify their unique voice and experience.
www.jesuistasneem.com
twitter @iamtasneem
IG @lastmangoinparis
FB @iamtasneem
Nova Scotian, Toronto based recording artist Shelley Hamilton will be releasing a single and video for “Think On Me” on November 2nd via iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and all streaming formats. She will also be performing live for her release on November 2nd at Roc n’ Doc’s In Mississauga Ontario.
A showcase of her original music with her trio will be held at Hirut Restaurant on October 26th at 8pm. Shelley is a Nova Scotian, Toronto based recording artist, singer, actor, host, producer and writer. The Africa Nova Scotian Music Association’s 2019 artist of the year, Shelley has worked internationally from Dubai to Japan, sung on award winning albums (the 2003 album ALLEGRO by Robert Michels) and done everything from a cappella with stand-up
comedy, to singing the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter“ beside the legend herself, American soul and gospel singer: Merry Clayton. Her most recent works as a Black
woman in country and folk music have been recognized with a 2019 Nomination – Canadian Folk Music awards (for the album The Afro-Metis Nation – “Constitution”) an African
Canadian artist of the year nomination for the 2020 East Coast Music Awards.
Drawing from a unique and diverse personal history, Stacey MacNevin is an experimental artist and expressionist who refuses to be pigeon-holed into any category. As a visual artist, writer, expressionist and live painter, she works with whatever materials she can, in symbiosis with the time, place and people around. Her work is about distilling the complex and varied emotive responses we have to our environments, culture, nature and other people into colour and haptic experiences. For Stacey, the process of creating and living through that process is the practice of art itself.
Her pieces are vastly unique and original, and as moments in time, never to be replicated again. Her oeuvre is pointedly and anti-oeuvre, a direct challenge to the notion that art must fit into an abject and orchestrated model of fine art. Purveyors of her pieces seek a truly unique and continually giving piece that always provides new insights and clever questions.
Passionate and devoted to the process of creating and expressing, Stacey is always seeking new skills, new collaborations and new inroads to the artistic journey and enjoys greatly connecting directly with collectors and galleries alike. Her works can be found in private collections all around the world, including Canada, United States, Caribbean, Europe, Sweden, Africa and Australia.
Driven by a desire to elevate and connect, Stacey has founded Esperanto Gallery & Studios Inc. to generate a new language of art for both creators and collectors.
Laneigh Ramirez is a Black gender fluid artist based in Toronto with a current focus on oil painting and airbrushing. Her art is a breakthrough from her childhood in Sarnia, Ontario, a place far removed from Black culture. Her recent work gives credit to impactful relationships, spiritual experiences, and authentic Black expression as they guide her through healing memories of alienation. Generally, she aims to pay homage to people and ideas that deserve to be seen, including herself.
Find and follow Laneigh and their work here:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neighramirez/
Website: https://shopartbyneigh.ca
Print Shop: https://artbyneigh.ca/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laneighramirez/
Stretching from Toronto, Canada, 24-year-old multi-talented artist Tabuu released his first single of 2021 with international-record producer David Sinclair-Black. Having worked with artists that include Lexy Panterra, Ayo and Teo, as well as multinational corporations such as the BBC, David approached Tabuu back in October with a beat called Times Ticking.
In 2019, Tabuu was involved in 3 music competitions where he achieved semi-final success before COVID hit where the prize money was $20k! He's also performed at Nathan Phillips during Caribana and helped produce Toronto’s first cypher in 2016.
Grab a front row seat to this insightful conversation about who and what inspires Tabuu and how he is inspiring others in his community and his city! Tabuu discusses a few of the life lessons and challenges he's had to overcome, his hit songs: “Couple Dollars” & “3 Missed Calls” and whether he prefers chips or chocolate on this week's episode of The Auntie Lanette Show!!!
Music Links:
Spotfiy | https://open.spotify.com/artist/6UfMXnL7PfwbMP1ae01ntf?si=Cf9VPpxKR76mF5rbJeHvZw
Apple Music | https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/tabuu/1272362406
Youtube Tabuu Music | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZftp-RYcrPkTBIAS83sJsw
Tabuu ENT | https://www.youtube.com/c/TabuMusic
Clothing Line:
TabuuLine | https://tabuuline.com
Meet Toronto based visual artist Stephanie McLean and Dutch born visual artist Denise Buisman Pilger who are currently collaborating on a project with (4) other artists from around the globe.
Fun Facts: Stephanie was a former jazz band theatre singer before 2021, which is when she decided to focus all her artistic energies in painting portraits of musicians and Denise's frequent global travels and recent stint of living in Japan inspired her current deep dive into Japanese art.
You can find Stephanie on IG at: @StephanieMcLean_ART /FB: https://http://www.Facebook.com/McLeanPaints / Twitter: @stephmclean_art
You can find Denise on IG, Twitter and Facebook @TheArtistAbroad
Watch their interview on CBC Montreal where they discuss the Palimpsest Project Here: https://www.internationalartalliance.org/2022/03/blog-post_19.html
https://www.stephaniemcleanart.ca/
https://www.ArtistAbroad.com
WELCOME TO THE AUNTIE LANETTE SHOW! a Pay It Forward podcast brought to you by @OBIAA @auntielanette @workitware and @awwbproduction that will highlight some of Torontos hottest visual and musical artists!
We are thrilled to introduce you to OUR VERY FIRST GUEST:Toronto's very own RAXX, is an up and coming independent female hip hop artist from Toronto who recently teamed up with E.M Lord to visualize her Buckroll-produced single, “All I Need.” The song, which follows the release of “Mind Ya Business” earlier in the year, is available now on Apple Music, Spotify, and various other digital streaming platforms. Just yesterday, RAXX was featured on the We Love Hip Hop Network to discuss the “White Girl Post,” being transparent, her motivations, and more.
RAXX has been featured on popular media outlets such as #6ixbuzz, #HipHop Canada, #Waverooomtv, #WORLDWIDE TV, #Keep6ixlive, #6ixclouttv, #straightouttathe6ix and many more. Her style of music is an old school feel with a new school vibe. RAXX: Representing the females.
You can find RAXX via:
IG: @raxxofficialmusic
Twitter: @raxxwith2x /
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raxxofficialmusic/
Her latest single THIC CHIC produced by @tykun_dropped on September 22 and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqN4IvXg4XA
RAXX shared exclusive news with The Auntie Lanette Show in this podcast episode that she will be opening for the Canadian Goat 🐐 @kardinalo on October 1st!! We are blessed to have her as our FIRS GUEST and share this news with you all here!
Check out RAXX and follow her rapidly growing career here:
https://hiphopcanada.com/raxx-all-i-need-video/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHlHxyTjCSGq_f49fwpP2MA?app=desktop
https://www.facebook.com/raxxofficialmusic/
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