{{Short description|Canadian musician and actress}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Magi Merlin | image = Magi Merlin Mile End Kicks TIFF 2025.jpg | caption = Merlin at TIFF in 2025 | birth_place = Montréal, Quebec, Canada | origin = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | genre = {{hlist|POP|R&B}} | occupation = Musician, actress | years_active = 2020–present }}
'''Magi Merlin''' is a Canadian musician and actress.
== Life and career == Magi Merlin [''pronounced Mahd-j-eye''] is from Montreal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-04-07 |title=How Magi Merlin created her own kind of 'broken R&B' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/how-magi-merlin-created-her-own-kind-of-broken-rnb-9.7154640 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=CBC}}</ref> She is queer.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Magi Merlin |url=https://citizenfreak.com/artists/110433-magi-merlin |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Museum of Canadian Music}}</ref>
She has co-written and co-produced largely alongside Funkywhat, a collaborator with whom she has built a shared musical language, Magi’s alternative forms of Pop and R&B are about as high-definition as one can imagine, without sacrificing sensuousness and emotion. Her 2022 EP Gone Girl is music that feels alive, animated by a voice that blends unruly maximalism and earned wisdom. It sent her on a European tour with Noga Erez and later on a one-off concert in Mexico City with Omar Apollo. A surprise EP in 2025, A Weird Little Dog, brought a deepened emphasis to her experimental style and gave rise to Broken R&B, a genre she named and owns entirely, less a marketing category than an honest account of how she works, her art direction and visual world as idiosyncratic and charged as the music itself.thumb|Merlin performing in 2022 In 2026, Magi began releasing singles from her debut album, starting with "POPSTAR", and followed by "SpiceKick"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-04-01 |title=Magi Merlin Drops “SpiceKick,” Announces Debut LP |url=https://readrange.com/magi-merlin-spicekick/ |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=RANGE |language=en-US}}</ref> and "So Smart".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farrell |first=Margaret |date=2026-05-07 |title=Magi Merlin Shares New Single "So Smart": Listen |url=https://stereogum.com/2498220/magi-merlin-so-smart/music/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref> Her debut album ''Power House'' (stylized in all caps) is set to release on July 10, 2026, on ONErpm & Bonsound.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-07 |title=Magi Merlin shares new video for "So Smart" from upcoming LP |url=https://www.killbeatmusic.com/media-releases/2026/5/7/magi-merlin-shares-new-video-for-so-smart-from-upcoming-lp |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Killbeat Music |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2026-05-07 |title=Magi Merlin finds self-compassion on new single So Smart |url=https://news.bonsound.com/magi-merlin-finds-self-compassion-on-new-single-so-smart |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Bonsound |language=en}}</ref>
Magi appeared as Chloe in the 2025 film ''Mile End Kicks''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mile End Kicks |url=https://www.ciffcalgary.ca/films/2025/mile-end-kicks/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Calgary International Film Festival |language=en-CA}}</ref>
== Discography == '''Albums'''
* ''Power House'' (2026)
'''EPs'''
* ''A Weird Little Dog'' (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Weird Little Dog, by Magi Merlin |url=https://magimerlin.bandcamp.com/album/a-weird-little-dog |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Bandcamp |language=en}}</ref> * ''Gone Girl'' (2022)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Magi Merlin – Wavelength Music – Toronto's Curated Concert Series |url=https://www.wavelengthmusic.ca/artist/magi-merlin/ |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Wavelength Music |language=en-CA}}</ref> * ''Drug Music'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-04-16 |title=WATCH: "Mock Meat" by Montreal R&B artist Magi Merlin |url=https://cultmtl.com/2021/04/watch-mock-meat-by-montreal-rb-artist-magi-merlin/ |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=Cult MTL |language=en-US}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Merlin, Magi}} Category:Living people Category:Canadian contemporary R&B singers Category:21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters Category:Canadian queer musicians Category:21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people Category:21st-century Black Canadian women singers