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Vocals that shift from Ben Harper-style blues through intense, earthy soul to the high-register R&B of a young Michael Jackson, lyrics that unfold like modern-day fables and a playfulness that oozes from both light-hearted love songs and a dark murder ballad are rarely the stuff of recent school leavers. Justin Nozuka may have the glossy good looks of a typical teen star, but they couldn't be more deceptive.
Born in New York, raised in Canada and part-Japanese, Nozuka has been making music all through his teens. One of seven children raised by a single mother in a few cities in Ontario, he wrote his first song aged 12, formed a band with his brothers the following year and, by 16, was playing solo in clubs and coffee-houses, selling home-made CDs from a stall after shows.
Now just 21 years of age, Nozuka just recently graduated from the same music school that birthed Broken Social Scene. An MTV star who declined major label representation to navigate the music world independently, he has been touring the country in support of his second full length album, You I Land Water and Sea for the better part of the past spring and summer. |
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