Jayli Wolf

BIOGRAPHY

Indigenous (Anishinaabe/Cree), Queer, and proud of her post-traumatic growth, Jayli Wolf is an activist, actress, and an Alt-Pop singer-songwriter-producer and filmmaker. A by-product of the controversial Sixties Scoop, the Canadian rising star’s  debut EP Wild Whisper,  which explored the hardship her family endured from the colonial genocide inflicted by the Canadian Government; the exodus of leaving the religion she was born into and releasing the shame and guilt instilled in her around her bisexuality, received much critical acclaim including a 2022 Juno-Award Nomination, Apple’s 100 Best Songs of 2021, and CBC top 10 Canadian Songs 2021 lists, a #1 on CBC Radio One, over 1+ Million views on Youtube for the “Child of The Government” self-directed music video, and coverage in VOGUE (Global), NYLON, Rolling Stone, CBC, them. and much more.

Jayli’s work caused a global stir, when several of her TikTok videos went viral one of which reached over half a million viewers and received countless comments from people whose Indigenous family members have had similar experiences in the Sixties Scoop.

Rolling Stone called Jayli Wolf's music a crossover between Phantogram, Crystal Castles, and Chvrches. Jayli Wolf’s critically acclaimed prowess is living proof that you can find your truth despite a tumultuous past. Her much-anticipated second EP focuses on themes of spirituality, self love, awakening, and healing. Sonically, it experiments with collected sounds across Turtle Island, where Jayli spent her childhood, and fuses both folk and electronic alternative elements. Jayli’s first single and music video from EP 2 “Holding On” will be released on April 21, 2023.

More about the Sixties Scoop: the Canadian Government and Catholic Church were responsible for taking or “scooping” more than 20,000 First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and communities in the 1950s through the ‘90s. The children were placed in foster homes or adopted (with accounts of children even being sold) into non-Indigenous families across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Along with the loss of cultural identity, the government went so far as to change some children’s true ethnicity on file. Many experienced severe sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.