SEMIAH

Named “Artist to Watch” by SheBOPS Zine (USA) in 2024 Semiah is more than delivering on that claim in 2025 - earning a DORA Award for Outstanding Composer, premiering her directorial debut music video at Finland’s renowned Skábmagovat Film Festival, rocking a successful Canadian west coast tour, receiving a scholarship for Canada’s Music Incubator and invited support act for Aysanabee and Jully Black.

Hailing from Six Nations and based in Toronto, Semiah has called the stage home since age 5. Whether an intimate club or an outdoor festival, she's a playful dervish who disrupts expectations and weaves webs that elicit swoons and encores.

Semiah’s sonic signature bridges the two worlds she naturally inhabits: her electrified, synth-laced hyperpop channels her urban party-gurl spirit, while her twang-tinged acoustic ballads reveal her tender interior shaped by an early connection to the bush and country music classics. These worlds are bound together by Semiah's unmistakable alpine vocal tone. It glitters with subtle Haudenosaunee embellishments and aches with a confessional style delivery on lyrics about love, fear, recklessness and resilience.

2025 sophomore EP LVR GRL releases in three episodes:

Episode 1 Clementine is inspired by Kate Winslet's character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. 

“I watched this movie endlessly while working through my own impulsivity in a breakup. Clementine taught me a lot about myself, so I took that further into a song with the ultimate blend of synth production with live guitar and drums” — Semiah

The track features an insistent vocal delivery over a blistering soundtrack that fans of ThxSoMch, WILLOW & Crystal Castles will love. Since it's August 2025 release, Clementine been playlisted on national radio CBC, Sirius XM, The Journey FM, Apple Music and named Song of The Week by !earshot digital distribution. The official video directed by Semiah, includes visual nods to the film and will be spotlighted in a nationally aired APTN “making of” feature. 

In episode 2 Nothing At All, our LVR GRL is in the ruminating phase of replaying the past with a present day numbness; beginning to admit to being a foolish believer. The mood is perfectly captured in a sonic landscape reminiscent of The Smiths. Releasing Sept 26. Official music video tells the story with exuberant dance choreography by Semiah and was filmed in Toronto's underground club scene.

The finale episode DED 2 ME is a stadium-worthy chant over intimate acoustic production. Raw defiance declares that memory erasure is complete. Releases October 17, 2025 with an unflinchingly direct video dropping a week later.

Semiah directs, produces and choreographs her videos, including 2024's 'Withdrawals' single that features a Katana sword fight and powerpuff characters pouncing in the snowy Alberta mountains like an Indigenous Charlie's Angels. Song co-produced with Montreal’s Teleh0rn.

Semiah’s debut single 'Nothing Can Kill My Love for You' garnered over 100,000 streams, and tracks from debut EP 'After The Night Ends' continue to be featured on CBC radio programs Here & Now, AfterDark and Drive with Rich Terfry.

Alongside her music, Semiah is an innovative visual artist, crafting original wardrobe and handcrafted merch — all of which bring her song themes to life as tangible art.