Kyan: Power Up Music Creator
Kyan
Singer/Songwriter
Kyan is an independent singer/songwriter/producer who has amassed over 117 million streams.
The songs from his visual album “Nothing Beyond” have gained support from a wide variety of champions including Ebro Darden, Zane Lowe, COLORS, Clash, Complex, Huffington Post, BBC Introducing, Hunger Tv, Wonderland, Radio 1xtra, Capital Xtra, Mahogany, Red Bull and Nile Rodgers.
Growing up as a black boy with bi-racial, lesbian parents in the predominantly white city of Cambridge, Kyan had to move schools due to racism and bullying from the fall-out of Section 28 (the law the forbade the “promotion” of homosexual relationships in schools and institutions). Music became his safe place and so he escaped into the vivid worlds of Pink Floyd, A Tribe Called Quest, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. Though unable to afford music lessons he quickly taught himself how to play piano on a small Casio keyboard that he used to channel his emotions into his first lyrics, melodies and chords.
Kyan’s upbringing gave him the ability to question a lot of societal constructs such as gender roles, racial stereotypes and identity politics. This narrated his creative practice as a Renaissance creative and inspired him to focus his art on breaking out of boxes, through glass ceilings and erasing labels.
Whether it’s the exploration of depression in “Like Summer”, the gender, genre, label, stereotype exploding video of “Lonely River” or “Neighbours” that seemed to foreshadow the isolation, fear and tension between governments and their peoples during the pandemic, Kyan’s work pulses with purpose.
“With a network of innovative, black people from different backgrounds we can be part of building change through our art and through the sharing of the knowledge and experiences.” Kyan