LOONY

LOONY is the stage name of Kira Huszar, a Canadian rhythm and blues singer from Scarborough, Ontario. She grew up in Scarborough, in the Northeast end of Toronto, where she taught herself how to sing as a kid, attended rock music summer camp, and released her first mixtape in high school. After graduating from McGill University in 2016, LOONY returned to Scarborough and began her music career in earnest. At McGill, she fell in love with James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot, which influenced her songwriting and gave her work a literary depth.

LOONY released her first single "A Small Flame" in 2018. She met producer Akeel Henry through Kijiji, and she worked closely with producers Akeel Henry—a former apprentice of Drake producer Noah "40" Shebib—and Adam Ponang, to develop her experimental, genre-blurring sound. She is most noted for her 2021 EP "soft thing," which was longlisted for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. She was previously a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee in 2020 for her single "Some Kinda Love."

Elton John took a special shine to her on his Apple Radio show "Rocket Hour," playing a handful of her songs and interviewing her on the podcast in late 2022, bringing her international attention. In 2023, she participated in an all-star recording of Serena Ryder's single "What I Wouldn't Do," which was released as a charity single to benefit Kids Help Phone's Feel Out Loud campaign for youth mental health. After years of promising EPs and single releases, the singer's eponymous debut album dropped on Friday, March 22, 2024, cementing her status as one of Toronto's most exciting R&B voices.

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