JayRed

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

29-year old Indigenous Male Artist from Winnipeg MB, Canada. I am a Intergenerational Trauma Survivor, My Parents were sent to Residential school before I was born. I grew up in their pain and suffering from the abuse they endured in these schools, I remember the stories they would sometimes tell me as they were unknowingly doing so under the influence of their addiction to numbing it all with alcohol. I was taken from their care at the age of 8 and stayed in the system till I was 14 when my mom suddenly passed in a house fire, I was 1000 miles south of her when it happened in a foster home in the city of Winnipeg MB. I fell into my own addictions afterwards, ended up in jail at 19 after following my own paths of self destruction and an overwhelming longing for an end to my pain and suffering. I came to my city after jail and found what i always remembered helping me through my hardest of times Music. I started at 21yrs old trying to carve a better future with my music so enjoy!