Restless in Lockdown, He Started a Music Career
KidMotor knew he couldn’t stay still. Recording an album, he says, is ‘making me feel alive right now.’
Aly Laube is a multimedia journalist with a passion for amplifying underrepresented voices. She is also a queer, mixed race woman living with chronic health conditions. Email her or follow her @godalyshutup. SHARES Without the experience of lockdown, KidMotor may have never been born, says creator Oskar Flowers.
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“I have no idea what it’s like to start a career in a normal world,” says 24-year-old Oskar Flowers, who graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and debuted his music solo project, KidMotor, during the COVID-19 pandemic.