Chris Cachia

Chris Cachia is a Canadian music-maker and word-shaper in the tradition of those golden-age Hip Hop emcees who focus on lyricism to address social issues, tell stories, and enact the power and pleasure of language.

His latest project (released on February 21st, 2022), is an eight-track LP entitled Persona. After releasing his debut album in 2007, Cachia took an eight-year break away from making music as he managed a particularly challenging period of obsessive-compulsive disorder. His return to music, with a series of EPs released from 2015 to 2021, was an attempt to harness his personal struggles to heal through art. His overall message is that creativity can be used as means to both address mental health concerns and issues of social injustice.

More than anything, Cachia can spit. Each project takes the listener on a journey through the mind of a poet that mixes honesty and politics with pop culture references and creative wordplay. Cachia characterizes Persona, created during the pandemic, as channeling this age of the mask as a take-off point for a coming-of-age, lyrical crime spree. Though acknowledging the cliché, Cachia cites Hip Hop (along with his wife and daughters) for saving his life. He is an engaging live performer who has charted on Canadian college radio and, in his other lives, utilizes Hip Hop as an educator and visual artist.