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"  While the &amp;#039;80s-music revival has seen no shortage of evangelists (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Daft Punk, Robyn, Haim), the &amp;#039;90s sound\u2014muddled by every genre from new jack swing to g-funk\u2014is only on the brink of resurrection. Kiesza is one artist set to lead the blitz. &amp;quot;My mom was obsessed with &amp;#039;90s music,&amp;quot; says the 25-year-old Canadian, who, prior to cutting her singer-songwriter teeth at Boston&amp;#039;s Berklee College of Music, trained as a ballet dancer (and also, incidentally, as a code breaker in the Canadian navy). &amp;quot;It was a lot of those divas like CeCe Peniston and Robin S., whose voices seemed impossible to have.&amp;quot;      As it so happens, Kiesza has one of those voices, and it&amp;#039;s in full effect on her debut EP, Hideaway, a record of neo-soul tracks energized by poppy synths and just the right amount of deep-house La Bouche\u2013style bass. Her hyperinfectious first single, &amp;quot;Hideaway&amp;quot;\u2014which premiered on the BBC Radio 1 show of tastemaker DJ Annie Mac earlier this year, went on to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one, then racked up 65 million (and counting) YouTube views\u2014finds Kiesza in her sweet spot, dynamic vocals energetically fusing with anthemic club beats; and the music video, a single-tracked shot of Kiesza hip-hopping through Brooklyn in her signature eclectic urban street style, is just as fly. But Kiesza&amp;#039;s talents for sonically dialing in to the end of the millennium aren&amp;#039;t limited to the dance floor. She also kills on a pared-down cover of the Haddaway head-bobber &amp;quot;What Is Love&amp;quot; (what&amp;#039;s more &amp;#039;90s than that?), and hints at even more tempo tinkering on her first full-length album, out later this year. &amp;quot;It fits within a world where dance, ballads, R&amp;amp;amp;B, and breakbeat all mix\u2014but what ties it together is soulfulness. Soulful melody.&amp;quot; Related:  Sarah McLachlan Is Done Writing Breakup Songs  Related: Did Beyonc\u00E9 Just Announce That She&amp;#039;s Doing the Music for &amp;#039;Fifty Shades of Grey&amp;#039;? Related:  20 Classic Summer Songs That Don&amp;#039;t Get Old  This article appeared in the August issue of ELLE magazine.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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