{"id":148110,"date":"2012-12-14T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/kay-is-fast-tracked-to-success-regardless-what-you-call-her\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:12:52","slug":"kay-is-fast-tracked-to-success-regardless-what-you-call-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/kay-is-fast-tracked-to-success-regardless-what-you-call-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay is fast-tracked to success regardless what you call her"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her name is Kay, real name Kristin Boutilier. For a spell, she went by \u201cMy Name Is Kay,\u201d just to drive home the point. The 25-year-old Cape Breton native, signed to Interscope and Universal Music Canada, released her 2012 debut EP under that name, which featured the eponymous single.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith \u2018My Name is Kay,\u2019 it was supposed to be a fun little interlude on the album,\u201d says Kay. \u201cA three-minute \u2018This is who I am. This is what I like. Let me say my name 40 times.\u2019 And people still forget.\u201d
\nToday, it\u2019s a different story. After closing in on half-million YouTube views for the \u201cMy Name Is Kay\u201d video; earning two Top 20 CHR hits in Canada with \u201cMy Name Is Kay\u201d and \u201cStrangers\u201d; touring with LMFAO and Hedley; and appearing on tracks by Far East Movement, Cobra Starship, Steve Aoki, Tiesto and Diplo, it\u2019s safe to say people know her name. So she\u2019s back to using just \u201cKay.<\/p>\n

Her still-untitled debut album \u2013 an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, dance and ballads \u2013 will drop in January 2013. While the songs were co-written with various songwriters, Kay\u2019s main foil was OneRepublic\u2019s Ryan Tedder, who also produced the album.

: \u201cWhen an opportunity comes up to work with anybody, I always say yes.\u201d- Kay<\/div>\n

\u201cWorking with Ryan has been amazing,\u201d says Kay. \u201cHe\u2019s a genius. He\u2019s so smart that his ideas and his brilliance kind of rubs off on you. It\u2019s in the air when you\u2019re in the studio with him\u2026 Every other song he writes is a hit, so I feel like I\u2019m in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also worked with Atlanta\u2019s Organized Noize (TLC, OutKast, Ludacris). In addition to the album, in the U.S. Kay is releasing an EP every two months for the next nine months or so, each featuring three to five songs she worked on with a different producer. The first, entitled Say What You Want, was produced by Doctor Rosen Rosen (sic) and came out Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like I\u2019ve been working two years on my music, and now it\u2019s all gonna start coming out,\u201d says Kay.<\/p>\n

That includes the songs recorded by Tiesto, Diplo and Aoki to which she\u2019s contributed. \u201cWhen I was writing for the album,\u201d says Kay, \u201cI was pretty much strictly writing for the album, and everyone I worked with knew that. But now that that\u2019s done, other people are putting out their albums, and they hit me up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been the type of person that when an opportunity comes up to work with anybody, I always say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Track Record<\/strong>
\n\u2022 In 2007, Kay lived in London, England, where she hired a coach to teach her to rap.
\n\u2022 She later lived in Vancouver, where she tried to get a drum \u2018n\u2019 bass duo with DJ B off the ground.
\n\u2022 She worked with Ryan Tedder after she met his A&R representative at a house party in L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in a name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":110245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}