Music: Then and Now

Zaynab is a Canadian-Trinidadian globe-trotting multi-instrumentalist, who openly embraces her creative and personal expansion through her dynamic style and passionate expression.  She transmutes the raw material of her experiences and voice into songs that “quietens your spirit”. 

With a diverse musical input ranging from Bob Marley to Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding and Billie Holiday, Zaynab’s output flows with elements of improvisation influenced by Jazz, Soul, R&B and Afro-Caribbean.

Born into a steelpan playing family band based in Montréal, music and sound flowed with diversity throughout the family home giving Zaynab rich cultural and musical roots to explore.

In 2014, she earned a Bachelor of Music on drums from Humber College then continued with her musical dynamism through debuting her own project, MoZayic, and in supportive percussive roles with Jason Wilson, Alysha Brilla and other local and international projects. In 2018, Zaynab welcomed a new level of deepening with music when she released as a singer-songwriter and has since performed her original project across Canada, in the USA and Australia, receiving radio airplay on Canada’s CBC and Australia’s ABC. 

Zaynab is planning to start her own podcast, The Music Cabinet, which will explore music/art/storytelling as a therapy, medicine and healing tool.

Cover Art Design by Tania Willems

https://www.zaynabwilsonmusic.com/