Winnipeg Free Press By: Ben Sigurdson | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 12, 2021 Save to Read Later
For Winnipeg Cree and Trinidadian author Tasha Spillett-Sumner, successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic with her husband, Anishinaabe singer-songwriter-rapper Leonard Sumner, and their young daughter, Isabella, has meant taking a day-by-day approach to life.
For Winnipeg Cree and Trinidadian author Tasha Spillett-Sumner, successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic with her husband, Anishinaabe singer-songwriter-rapper Leonard Sumner, and their young daughter, Isabella, has meant taking a day-by-day approach to life.
The pair couldn’t have anticipated the state of the world into which their daughter would arrive in March 2020 a week before the COVID-19 pandemic took full force on a global scale.
Leonard Sumner’s musical journey has come full circle in more ways than one.
Cover art by Luke Swinson
Leonard Sumner’s third album, Thunderbird, is a return to his roots as a hip-hop artist.
In March, the Anishinaabe singer-songwriter from Little Saskatchewan First Nation released
Thunderbird, his third full-length album and a return to his roots as a hip-hop artist.
Sumner has never been tied to one sound; since 2013, he’s been putting out music that blends folk, country and rap vocals atop the steady strumming of his acoustic guitar. In
Thunderbird, the twang has been replaced with beats and rhymes.