SAM I AM MONTOLLA - Studio 303

PROJECT // Explorations with Sound and Culture

BIOGRAPHY

Samantha Hinds a.k.a Sam I Am Montolla started dancing at the tender age of 5 and her love of music has brought her to singing and songwriting. Through dance, she has traveled internationally for Hip Hop and Waacking. Being one of the 1st Canadian Waackers and teachers of the style, she is known as Princess Shayla in the crew The Chapter.

In music journey, Soul, RnB, Hip Hop, and Funk are where she likes to play, not forgetting her Caribbean heritage. She has been on the Palmares Adisq Radio Campus list and was a featured artist at CMW 2021 for her music. She continues to mentor in Street Dance; as a certified Sound Healer/Therapist, she incorporates her knowledge of Sound. For 2022, she was featured in Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep’s Sam & Angèle and is now part of the CCOV (Centre Création O Vertigo), as Artistic Curator for 2023-2026.

DETAILS OF THE PROJECT
This is a continued exploration to the piece Where Me and My Father Resides as I dive into connection to sounds and rhythms learnt from my Trinidadian father. It’s a work in progress with many layers and sections, touching on family connection through the passion of sound and music with the percussive instrument, the “Iron”. In this residency, I want to explore more the rhythms, usually played to Soca and Calypso music. Explore movement, embodying these rhythms with live music performance and singing. As close as this project may be for me, from this residency, I want to have a sense of play and laughter through this discovery process. Ultimately joy.

DETAILS OF THE PROJECT

This is a continued exploration to the piece Where Me and My Father Resides as I dive into connection to sounds and rhythms learnt from my Trinidadian father. It’s a work in progress with many layers and sections, touching on family connection through the passion of sound and music with the percussive instrument, the “Iron”.

In this residency, I want to explore more the rhythms, usually played to Soca and Calypso music. Explore movement, embodying these rhythms with live music performance and singing. As close as this project may be for me, from this residency, I want to have a sense of play and laughter through this discovery process. Ultimately joy.