# Kytami

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{{Short description|Canadian musician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| background        = person
| name              = Kytami
| image             = Kytami.jpg
| alt               = Kytami wearing a black, patterned, sleeveless top, playing violin onstage
| caption           = Kytami performing in 2010
| image_size        =
| birth_name        = Kyla Tamiko Uyede
| alias             =
| birth_place       = [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver), British Columbia, Canada
| origin            =
| genre             = {{flatlist|
* [Drum and bass](/source/Drum_and_bass)
* [hip-hop](/source/hip-hop)
* [punk rock](/source/punk_rock)
* [dance](/source/Dance_music)
}}
| occupations        = {{hlist|Musician|singer|rapper}}
| instrument        = {{hlist|Violin|vocals}}
| years_active      = 2002–present
| label             =
| current_member_of = Blackie and the Triumphs
| past_member_of    = [Delhi 2 Dublin](/source/Delhi_2_Dublin)
| website           = {{url|kytami.com}}
}}

'''Kyla Tamiko LeBlanc''' ([née](/source/Maiden_name) '''Uyede'''), better known by her stage name '''Kytami''', is a Canadian violinist, singer, and rapper. Born in [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kelownaentertainment.ca/EventDetails/2 |title=Kytami Album Release with F.U.C.  |access-date=July 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505074542/http://www.kelownaentertainment.ca/EventDetails/2 |archive-date=May 5, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> she started taking violin lessons at the age of three and trained classically at the [Vancouver Academy of Music](/source/Vancouver_Academy_of_Music) from ages 3 to 17.<ref name="punk parents">{{cite news|title=Punk Parents Playing Whistler|url=http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/punk-parents-playing-whistler/Content?oid=2150591|newspaper=Pique Magazine|date=June 2, 2005|accessdate=July 8, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Monday">{{cite web|last=Green|first=Mary Ellen|title=Kytami rocks V.I.C. Fest|url=http://www.mondaymag.com/news/158684195.html|work=Monday Magazine|accessdate=July 8, 2012|date=June 14–20, 2012}} This article reported that Kytami began playing violin at age three. [http://artsvictoria.ca/index.php?show_action=view&showid=93263 A promotional page on Arts Victoria in September 2006] noted that Kytami had "23 years" of violin experience. Additionally, the ''Monday Magazine'' article described her musical style: "blend[ing] her classical training with her more cutting edge sensibilities, merging her experiences playing with indie rock, acoustic punk rock, dancehall/hip hop/electronic, metal and Bhangra-Celtic fusion groups, and more recently with a DJ."</ref><ref name="High-culture career leads to Chaos">{{cite web|last1=Arnusch|first1=Shelley|title=High-culture career leads to Chaos|url=http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/high-culture-career-leads-to-chaos/Content?oid=2146315|website=Pique|accessdate=May 4, 2015|date=January 30, 2004}}</ref> In 2002, she recorded her first solo album, ''Conflation''. In 2006, she co-founded the [Bhangra](/source/Bhangra_(music))/[electronic](/source/Electronic_music) group [Delhi 2 Dublin](/source/Delhi_2_Dublin) but left in late 2010 to continue her solo career.<ref name="punk parents"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Devlin|first=Mike|title=Fiddler sans frontier|url=http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=cc58192b-0d58-4ada-ab6a-8cff3d90bc9e&sponsor=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118204634/http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=cc58192b-0d58-4ada-ab6a-8cff3d90bc9e&sponsor=|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 18, 2013|accessdate=July 8, 2012|newspaper=Victoria Times-Colonist|date=May 5, 2010}}</ref> Her second, self-titled studio album, came out in 2012, followed by a remix album in 2014 and the EP ''Renegade'' in 2017. Kytami is also a member of the group Blackie and the Triumphs, which is led by her husband, Jay "Blackie" LeBlanc. In 2011, they released their debut album, ''Thinkinaboutdrinkin''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blackie and the Triumphs |url=https://cumberlandvillageworks.com/event/blackie-and-the-triumphs/ |website=cumberlandvillageworks.com |date=April 23, 2011 |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=An artist's unrelenting dedication |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20100505/282471410073068?srsltid=AfmBOopIXL_YTuWxi3ZprOksTdyRztP6yxGzcwGdZpjIqwhS_WDhPQLv |website=vancouver-sun |date=May 5, 2010 |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref>

Her stage name, Kytami, blends her first and middle names.<ref name="What's Up">{{cite web|last=Glick|first=Abbie|title=Kytami: Violinist extremist|url=http://www.whatsup-magazine.com/2011/07/08/kytami-violinist-extremist/|work=What's Up! Magazine|accessdate=July 8, 2012|date=July 8, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She is of mixed [Japanese](/source/Japanese_Canadian), [Filipino](/source/Filipino_Canadian), and [English](/source/English_Canadian) descent.<ref>[http://web.sd71.bc.ca/miracle/files/miracle_beach/delhi_2_dublin_study_guide-1.pdf Delhi 2 Dublin study guide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505073823/http://web.sd71.bc.ca/miracle/files/miracle_beach/delhi_2_dublin_study_guide-1.pdf |date=May 5, 2015 }}, p. 3.</ref>

==Discography==
===Solo===
* ''Conflation'' (2002)
* ''Kytami'' (2012)
* ''Kytami – Remixes'' (2014)
* ''Renegade'' (EP, 2017)

===with Delhi 2 Dublin===
* ''Delhi 2 Dublin'' (2007)
* ''Delhi 2 Dublin Remixed'' (2008)
* ''Planet Electric'' (2010)
* ''Planet: Electrified'' (2011)
* ''Delhi to Dubland'' (EP, 2011)

===with Blackie and the Triumphs===
* ''Thinkinaboutdrinkin'' (2011)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|kytami.com}}
* {{Discogs artist}}

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Category:21st-century Canadian classical violinists
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Category:21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
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