Interscope Didn't Just Own the Grammys - It's Ruling Oscars Music, Too
Salma Hayek Explains Her Slightly Awkward Hug With Eminem at the Oscars While a couple dozen artists performed and she played just two songs (the ones above), she had the crowd, most of whom had never heard of her, in the palm of her hand.īTS Is Headed Straight to No. Accompanied by a DJ and herself on acoustic guitar, Reyez presented a charming onstage persona that contrasted jarringly with the intensity of her performance - her sweet voice cracking or shifting into an even-higher register, often seeming on the verge of hysteria or violence or worse - especially on “Gatekeeper,” which had many people in the small audience shifting uncomfortably in their seats.įast forward a few months, and that same Jessie Reyez was performing for 18,000 people at Jay-Z’s Tidal X concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and absolutely slaying them.
She’d built a buzz in Canada via a series of singles, particularly the minor-at-the-time hit “Figures,” and had just released her debut EP, “Kiddo,” which included an aggressive and startlingly in-your-face song called “ Gatekeeper” about sexual harassment in the music industry. In the Spring of 2017, a young Colombian-Canadian singer named Jessie Reyez performed a short set in a small upstairs bar in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.