SATE
Canadian rock singer from Toronto, Ontario
SATE is the stage name of Saidah Baba Talibah, a Canadian rock singer from Toronto, Ontario. Her 2021 album The Fool was named a Juno Award nominee for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.
Background
The daughter of restaurateur Howard Matthews and influential Canadian blues and jazz singer Salome Bey, she began her musical career as an occasional performer with her mother under the name Salome Bey and the Relatives. She was a vocalist with the funk rock band Blaxäm in the 1990s, alongside her sister Tuku and Washington Savage of Infidels. The band released the EP Kiss My Afro in 1998, but broke up before releasing a full-length album.
Solo career
As Saidah Baba Talibah, she continued to perform as a solo artist, and released her debut solo album (S)cream in 2011. In this era, she described herself as having been inspired in part by Black Rock Coalition artists such as Living Colour.
In 2014, she performed at Toronto's Luminato Festival with TV on the Radio. In 2015, she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Leading Actress, Musical Theatre for her stage performance in What Makes a Man.
She subsequently changed her stage name to SATE, on the grounds that performing under her given names was giving audiences a false impression that they would be seeing a world music artist, when in fact her music blends elements of soul and funk with blues rock and punk rock.
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