Sebastian Gaskin has had a busy couple of years. He won the Vince Fontaine Indigenous Song Award for "Medicine" at the 2024 SOCAN Awards, and previously earned a Western Canadian Music Award for R&B Artist of the Year and the Kevin Walters Songwriting Award in 2021. Gaskin’s singles “Ghost,” “Medicine” and “Cherie Amour” have topped Canadian Charts. It’s not difficult to see why: his music combines stylistic features from pop, R&B and indigenous sonic palettes to create something individual, honest. He describes the sounds of his childhood, growing up in Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba in the early 2000s, where his mother kept the radio dialled to country stations and his grandmother, a respected community leader, belted out Southern gospel classics. The combinations of seemingly disparate musical idioms is a part of who he is, where he comes from. 

Most recently, Gaskin released “Song For Granny”, whose paired-down finger picking and vocals peaks listener’s interests before the addition of layered harmonies, rhythm guitar, and expressive percussion. “Everything will be alright, healing in time,” he sings, adding his voice to the choir of Indigenous artists asserting the pressing need for public expressions of Indigenous hope, joy and resilience. His debut album, LOVECHILD, will be released on February 21, 2025.