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SATE is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and songwriter. We dig into her musical history and bond over our shared love of Black Sabbath, Fishbone & Living Colour. We re-live our first meeting and the song that came out of it and she talks about her role in the COVID-postponed Scott Joplin opera Treemonisha featuring a predominantly black female team and ensemble. We also dig into her family roots: both her parents made enormous contributions to black culture in Toronto. She shares her need to balance her intense pride and loyalty to her parents accomplishments with the need to assert herself as an individual. We talk about the journey to make her new album “The Fool”, feeling and making music through her body, and coming to a place of self-acceptance.
“I was starting to feel like I was making music for people to accept me. When I wasn't accepted, it felt like shit. And I realized that it had nothing to do with anybody else but myself. Self-acceptance is the word that I'll probably tattoo somewhere on my body, definitely somewhere where I can see it. It doesn't really matter whether anybody else likes it or not, as long as I do, as long as I feel it in my body, as long as it moves me. That's all that matters. And that's hard. That's hard to come to because we make art to give to people for acceptance, for belonging.”
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SATE
WEB http://stateofsate.com
What Did I Do (Live Video) https://youtu.be/ZT8Ny2Vmcgk?t=152
Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha https://www.volcano.ca/treemonisha
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