Jae Sterling - Don't Sleep (Single)

Following a year of artistic chaos, evolution and controversy, Calgary’s multidisciplinary artist Jae Sterling releases ‘DON’T SLEEP’. Recorded at the prestigious National Music Centre during his Artist in Residency, this poignant Afrobeats RnB track marks the conclusion of Sterling’s year long multidisciplinary art project, Riding Horses with White Men.

From the house of THOTNATION, Sterling’s co-founded art collective; DON’T SLEEP  was made through the combined artistic vision of 4 diasporic black musicians in Alberta, infusing the track with a truly global sound that pulls from Nigeria, Jamaica and Sudan. Sterling is choosing to release the track following a turbulent year for his artistic vision during which he was Calgary’s first black solo muralist, an experience that placed him at the centre of controversy in Alberta. DON’T SLEEP is in part a response to Sterling’s many lives as an artist in Canada and Jamaica over the years, an ode to feelings of displacement and memory, and a love letter to his home, Kingston Jamaica.