She has co-written simple love songs like 'One Kiss,' a U.K.
The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, 'Figures.' Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling 'Gatekeeper' - an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator - in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender.
Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one.