Jann Arden

I would send you William Prince, but...

Let's talk about your career and the trajectory of this career, and especially for an Indigenous artist.

And I think they have been gravely overlooked and underappreciated.

And I feel like you have really smashed down a lot of walls for Indigenous creators of all kinds in the music business in particular.

Can you speak to that?

Exactly.

I mean, it defies generations.

I mean, you have one of those voices and it is this beautiful baritone voice that is reminiscent for me of country music, folk music from the 40s and 50s.

Like my parents listened to so much stuff.

Were you influenced by, like while you bring up Charlie Pryde, I'm just going to say, was your family playing that kind of stuff when you were growing up?

Oh, Linda.

Exactly.

You and I ran into each other, albeit very briefly, at the Salmon Arm Blues Festival.

And I probably didn't really know what to say to you because I had like two days before I've been listening to you with a bunch of friends in a car.

And my friend Teresa, shout out Teresa, is such a huge fan of yours.

And actually she was talking about you like long before that I really like was aware of you.

She's like, oh my God, this artist, my husband and I are going to go see him.

He's coming to Calgary, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, who is it?

William Prince, Jan.