Nina Lynn

Written by Jason MacNeil, 2025

Since she was old enough to realize the piano keys were no match for her three-year-old fingers, multi-instrumentalist and singer Nina Lynn has set about perfecting her genre-bending sound. It's a journey that continues garnering listeners based on material that's as intricate and sophisticated as it is delicate and emotive.

For Lynn, the various influences and fusions come as naturally to her as the songs she crafted for her 2018 full-length debut album 2am Kinda Night and 2023's Let Go. "I don't really think about it," Lynn says. “This is what I happen to find interesting right now, it's what I feel like doing. It would be hard to do it another way, to try and make the music fit a particular style or genre.”

At times, Lynn's work is ethereal with flourishes of elegant, jazz-tinged chamber pop. On other songs, adult contemporary, roots, and pop jewels emerge. Lynn's music epitomizes her myriad of influences: from icons like Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush to Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. Alternative influences from groups such as Tool, Nirvana, and The Tragically Hip are also heard at times, giving her songs a stellar sound.

That eclectic quality stems from her musical upbringing, where her Lynn's father played jazz guitar and her mother covered Joni Mitchell songs at home. With most of her family circle musically inclined, Lynn enrolled in the Ontario Conservatory of Music when she was six, studying classical piano. Two years later, she began singing in choirs, and playing flute at twelve. Lynn began playing guitar and writing songs when she was 14.  She later studied with a jazz vocalist in her teens and attended the Royal Conservatory of Music for piano.

After learning some of the ins and outs of recording in her teens and early 20's, Lynn recorded about three EPs worth of material but never released them. That changed with 2018's gorgeous, jazz-infused album, 2am Kinda Night, produced by Rick Hutt (Tom Cochrane, The Northern Pikes).

Lynn is currently working on a new batch of songs for a 2025 release. Lynn looks forward to the year with songs she says have a more ethereal hue to them than 2023's Let Go. Given her passionate, angelic vocal delivery and genre-defying music, Nina Lynn is headed for bigger and brighter musical horizons.