Puma June is a Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer with an eclectic array of influences from Stevie Wonder to Billie Eilish and everything in between. Providing a unique blend of pop, funk, hip-hop, and R&B Puma June’s feminist-laced songwriting pushes unfiltered honesty and centers around regaining power in one’s life, with a particular focus on women’s/gender issues, familial trauma, and the battle of self-doubt as an artist.
She entered 2024 as a Round 11 recipient of the RBCxMusic x The Prism Prize MVP Project Grant, which she used to make a music video for her single “My Body, My Problem,” released earlier this summer. The artist has lots on the horizon for 2024, including being selected for SOCAN Foundation’s EquityXProduction Level II program, an initiative designed to help develop skills for women in music production, as well as one of RBCxMusic’s ‘First Up’ Artists for 2024, a prestigious artist development program and workshop series, powered by MusiCounts.
Puma June’s latest single explores the idea of bad habits being internal battles like self-hatred and shedding trauma, rather than solely the traditional idea of bad habits.
Discussing the track, the artist shares, ‘The way we talk to ourselves – create this victim complex and define ourselves by our past – is the space we create for ourselves. Then we allow people into our lives that confirm that low self-worth. It’s about shedding that bullshit, changing your mindset, and freeing yourself from places/people that make you feel like you have to dim who you are’.
Stream the track via the following link: https://linktr.ee/pumajune
Photo Credit: Nick Spector, courtesy of Auteur Research
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