About

Sara Kae is an Ojibwe and Cree artist, writer, and performer with limitless range in both the stories she tells and the spaces where she tells them. A member of Lake Helen First Nation, Sara got her start touring northern Ontario with her counsellor father, speaking and singing in schools and community gatherings from the age of 12. 

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An honours graduate and Founders Award recipient of the esteemed Metalworks Institute in Mississauga, Sara is a CBC x SOCAN Foundation Reverie resident, an RBC First Up participant, and one of the nation’s most promising emerging artists. Her 2025 single, “Do You Think Of Me?”, was named to the Top 100 Canadian Songs of 2025 and reached #6 on the CBC Top 20, marking a milestone moment in her early recording career. Sara has also lent her voice to national Truth and Reconciliation Day broadcasts, as well as her own Toronto-based radio program with APTN.

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Sara’s growing list of career highlights includes hosting Wake the Giant Music Festival, opening for Juno Award-winning artist Aysanabee, partnering with Susan Aglukark’s Arctic Rose Foundation, co-creating the musical theatre production Trading Places, and fronting Rise with Sara Kae, a concert series with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra.

Her 2024 EP, Maadaadizi, funded by the Ontario Arts Council, is an intimate, organic, and upbeat tribute to her growth as an artist. Her new single, “Nothing At All,” opens an exciting new musical chapter in 2026, told with the tone, nuance, and personality you would expect from a prodigy of Sara’s calibre and lived experience.”