Jade LeMac naturally exists outside of any boxes, and it’s instantly apparent in her music. She takes pride in her half-Asian heritage and connection to the LBGTQ+ community, both of which have largely influenced her ability to bend and break barriers between genres.
The 18-year-old Vancouver-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist pens introspectively emotional soundtracks for even your saddest nights, but shows up with anthems for “when you want to have a ‘bad bitch time’ or get pumped up.”
Growing up in a tightknit, multicultural family on Canada’s Vancouver Island, she regularly sang karaoke unusually well with her cousins, falling in love with music at a young age. By middle school, she was writing songs of her own. Between endless practicing, she lent her voice to various dance singles for tastemaker electronic label Monstercat and started to attract a following on Instagram.
Throughout 2020, Jade built her audience on TikTok, now exceeding 1.2 million followers. During 2021, she unveiled the shimmering and starry-eyed debut single “Constellations.” This unorthodox outlier love song likened “the freckles on people’s bodies to constellations.”
The independent release shined with 25 million cumulative streams. GLAAD championed her among “10 LGBTQ Women in Music to Listen to this Pride Month” in 2022. Jade’s vision comes into focus on her debut EP which shares the name of her first single, Constellations, out Feb 10 via Arista Recordings.
Check out the latest release from Jade LeMac and accompanying lyric video for “Car Accident”: