Nestor Wynrush FEATURES |
Elliott Walsh is Nestor Wynrush. Born in Winnipeg, raised in Mississauga, this first-generation Canadian taps his West Indian and Nigerian roots to cook up an authentic pot-au-feu that can aptly be described as rap-soul, black & roll. With a hustle unsurpassed on the Canadian Prairies, Wynrush is closing in on ten years of recording and performing his charismatic style of rap music. Adding to that, he has been an on-air host and producer at CKUW and UMFM radio where his legendary program The Hip Hop Bistro has been thrilling and shocking listeners for a decade. Born without bones in his lower legs to a hardworking single mother (and an absentee father), Wynrush is no stranger to adversity. Growing up, he benefited from a number of programs that got him walking and got his creative juices flowing. Now he gives back, mentoring youth in hip hop education programs that focus on the socially positive and personally empowering aspects of creating music. Wynrush’s music is personal, sincere and unvarnished. It’s storytelling music informed by love, sorrow, discrimination, integration, fighting poverty, cultural identity, and social justice. It’s storytelling music in which he explores, scrutinizes and celebrates his experiences and those of his people in their adopted homeland. These stories need telling because the generation that came before him didn’t have the same outlet to tell them. Both Winnipeg and the multicultural Cooksville section of Mississauga, feature heavily as the backdrops for his songs. Living in both cities gave him great insight into what it means to be Canadian. Never does he eschew his roots in favour of appealing to a wider market. Truth be told, without his roots, Nestor Wynrush’s music wouldn’t exist. His songs are refreshing because they’re real. His live shows are spirited and unpredictable, like a three-ring
circus in which he is the ringmaster. His circus has toured California,
Minneapolis and Western Canada from Winnipeg to Victoria. His first album Guy, I’m From Here!, recorded under the alias
Satchel Paige, was released in 2003 on Your Brother Records. It
charted as high as #33 on Earshot’s national college radio
chart. Five years in the making, his new album Trinnipeg ’78
(Clothes Horse Records), features production by mcenroe, soso, Grand
Analog, Khela, & Murdock. |
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Nestor Wynrush SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
solo projects 2008 Trinnipeg !78
compilations & collaborations 2007 Pip Skid - Pip Donahue EP |
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