Latest single - jinx
“I wrote ‘Jinx’ because I was coming of age during a pandemic. This is me, watching a bunch of John Hughes movies and wishing for the coming-of-age story that I don’t think actually exists. It’s obviously about having a crush on someone: the nerves of accidentally brushing someone’s hand, will we won’t we, all of that teenage first love stuff that I know I’m going to look back on and feel nostalgic about. Also, it’s a completely illogical and romanticized version of those things. I actually think that ‘coming of age’ is realizing that these things, teenagers riding around in cars and falling in love, isn’t what being a human being is like at all. But it doesn’t make it any less fun to imagine and fantasize about.” - Lia Pappas-Kemps
About
Lia Pappas-Kemps is a former actor turned singer/songwriter based in Toronto, Canada. She is inspired by strong female pop artists like Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers. Other major influences include candid lyricists Alanis Morrisette and Courtney Barnett.
Her three season arch on Netflix’s Anne with an E started her career in the arts and shot her to global recognition, garnering her a large and faithful following across Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
She began recording voice memos of early songs on her mum’s iPhone and became obsessed with learning the guitar shortly thereafter. Trained as an intermediate jazz pianist and vocalist, the influences of early jazz can be heard in her instrumentals, and in her vocal choices.
Pappas-Kemps is an outspoken feminist, and — as a young woman in the music industry — she is an advocate for young women in all male-dominated industries.
more music
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sad in toronto
“I put a lot of weight on certain things ending or starting and how that’s going to change my life, then I’ll be happy, but man, being depressed doesn’t change.” - Lia on Sad in Toronto
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object at best
“I don't know, I just wrote it.” - Lia on Object at Best. The song, an echo of past relationships and heart aches.
