After releasing the internationally acclaimed EP Radios and Buffalos in 2024, multi-talented Indigenous recording artist Liv Wade is set to return with a new five-song collection entitled Fur Queen later this year on Merilainen Music. Overall, it displays Liv’s wide-ranging musical approach, with the latest single “Carolina” being a dramatic ballad that blends traditional storytelling with soaring modern production.
Liv described “Carolina” as growing out of recent global political agendas that have taken away the fundamental rights of many individuals. As a queer, two-spirit artist with Metis roots, she has long advocated for diversity, equity, equality and inclusion, and the song plainly gets the message across that she is “free to be myself and not afraid to tell the truth.”
Liv said, “We tried to showcase how cruel and calculated people can be, perpetuating lateral violence against each other, while calling out the cowardliness of individuals behind closed doors and screens, passing judgement without understanding layers of complexity and intersectionality. On the flip side we also wanted to highlight those folks pushing back, celebrating diversity, joining in solidarity, healing in community and not letting others’ insecurities determine their worth.”
“Carolina” expands upon Fur Queen’s first single, “Darkest Hour”—released in February 2026—which explores a similar theme of holding onto hope in challenging times. The music on that track is equally stunning, the product of Liv’s longtime partnership with producer Winston Hauschild, who works out of The Treehouse Studio on Bowen Island, near Vancouver.
Absorbing the music of Canadian icons such as Leonard Cohen, Ron Sexsmith, Kathleen Edwards and Sarah Harmer from a young age, by her teens Liv was combining all of it with her Royal Conservatory of Music studies, which soon earned her residencies at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and Manitoba’s Indigenous Music Program. Her debut studio record, and first collaboration with Hauschild, Resilience, was released in 2017, earning her a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2018 Indigenous Music Awards.
Since then, Liv Wade has continued to build a reputation as a powerful voice within the Indigenous Music Renaissance with each new collection of songs. She is now poised to add Fur Queen to that impressive catalogue and broaden her reach across Canada and around the world.
“Carolina” is available on all streaming services. Follow Liv Wade on Facebook and Instagram.
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