Women singer-songwriters lead nominations for East Coast Music Awards
HALIFAX — Women dominated the East Coast Music Awards nominations announced Monday, including a song-of-the-year nod for a P.E.I. singer-songwriter’s heartbreaking story of an adolescent sexual assault.
The front-running women include solo singer-songwriters Rose Cousins, Jenn Grant and KINLEY, whose lyrics describe her experience of being raped after her high-school prom.
KINLEY, who has said writing about the assault on her debut solo album “Letters Never Sent” helped her work through difficult emotions, picked up four nods, including rising star recording of the year.
Her song “Microphone” paints a picture of a boy taking the hand of a girl and leading her to a field, where she was sexually assaulted despite repeatedly saying no.