{"id":285576,"date":"2019-12-27T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1106154"},"modified":"2019-12-27T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:25:23","slug":"canadian-singer-kelly-fraser-dead-at-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/canadian-singer-kelly-fraser-dead-at-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Singer Kelly Fraser Dead at 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian singer Kelly Fraser<\/strong> has died. She was 26.<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Free Press<\/em><\/a> reported the Inuit singer-songwriter’s death on Thursday. The cause was not revealed.<\/p>\n

Fraser, who lived in Winnipeg, rose to International fame several years ago with her Inuktitut covers of English pop songs, such as Rihanna’s “Diamonds.” Hailing from Sanikiluaq, on the Belcher Islands, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, Fraser sang and rapped in both languages. <\/p>\n

Fraser was known for her pop, folk, EDM and hip-hop tracks and political lyrics. In addition to her music, she was praised for her promotion of Inuit rights and opposition to colonization and stereotyping, the CBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The singer released her debut album, Isuma<\/em>, in 2014. Three years later, she dropped her second album, Sedna<\/em>, which was nominated for Best Indigenous Music Album at the Juno Awards.<\/p>\n

“Our love and prayers go out to Kelly Fraser’s family and friends, fellow Inuit, and the many people that were touched by her life and music,” read a tweet<\/a> from the Juno Awards’ Twitter account. “Rest in peace, Kelly Fraser. We will miss you.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Following her death, a GoFundMe<\/a> page was set up to help her siblings, Jessie, Max <\/strong>and Rachel<\/strong>, pay for her memorial service and other costs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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As of Friday, more than $31,000\u2014more than the target goal\u2014in donations has been raised.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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E! News<\/i> returns Monday morning, Jan. 6 at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canadian singer Kelly Fraser has died. She was 26. The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Inuit singer-songwriter’s death on Thursday. The cause was not revealed. Fraser, who lived in Winnipeg, rose to International fame several years ago with her Inuktitut covers of English pop songs, such as Rihanna’s “Diamonds.” Hailing from Sanikiluaq, on the Belcher Islands, in the Qikiqtaaluk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-07 22:26:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}