Jessie Reyez

Jessie Reyez is one of the rawest voices to come out of Toronto in years, and that rawness is exactly why I keep returning to her. "Figures" hit triple platinum because it refused to be polished into something safe, and her Juno Breakthrough win felt fully earned. What I value most is her willingness to leave the pain audible, to let a cracked note land rather than smoothing it over. Her Colombian roots seem to feed a music that holds both wound and defiance at once. I suspect her best work is still ahead, and I find that genuinely exciting to anticipate.

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Name (English)

Jessie Reyez

Name (Japanese)

ジェシー・レイエズ

Reading

じぇしー・れいえず

Born

June 13, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Occupation

songwriter / singer-songwriter / recording artist / singer / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Canada's Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.jessiereyez.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jessiereyez/
• Xhttps://x.com/Jessiereyez
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Reyez
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29898660

Tags

• Ontario
• songwriter
• singer-songwriter
• recording artist

Last updated

September 23, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.