Electric Religious
Performer Category: Music Act
Electric Religious got his moniker from a Jimi Hendrix quote: “When I get up on stage, that’s my whole life. That’s my religion… I am electric religion.” His new album, The Taste, straddles pop, rock, and funk – a genre playfully coined as “Métis Disco.” Métis of Red River descent, he is now based in Edmonton on Treaty 6.
Brought up playing traditional fiddle music at dances along with his brother, he soon developed his own brand of psychedelic, guitar-driven music, which critics have described as, “bursting with inspiration, insight, and hope.”
His hunger to explore other dance genres led him to experiment with the sounds of disco. He has been included twice in the CBC Searchlight Top 100, and Tragic Lover was among CKUA’s Top 100 Albums of the year, on the heels of his nomination for Métis Artist of the Year at the Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards.
