Debby Friday

On her new record, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. For the Nigerian-Canadian polymath, to be a starrr is to live at the extremes: public versus private, hubris versus humility, flying versus falling. Autodidactic by nature, she emerged onto the scene in 2018 with BITCHPUNK, a self-produced and self-released EP that introduced her genre-blurring sound and fearless creative ethos. In 2023, she released her debut LP, GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop) to critical acclaim. The New York Times described the album as “ambitious and charismatic.” Six months following its release, the album was crowned the winner of the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.

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