'I want to make it about my experience': Jessie Reyez shines a light on the toxicity in the music industry

Jessie Reyez is the latest Toronto musician generating a whole lot of buzz this year.

Her songs are raw, unflinching, and always very personal. In fact, the way Reyez tells it, she performs to deal with the tensions in her life, including the stuff a lot of great songs come from: love, heartbreak and relationship woes.

But she also isn't afraid to sing about the industry she works in and some of its worst elements that can make the music business a scary and even unsafe place for young female singers.

That unfiltered, anything-goes approach is winning the Colombian-Canadian singer fans and praise around the world, and after a whirlwind summer that saw Reyez tour the U.S. and the U.K. and make her late-night debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, she talks to Tom Power about navigating the music industry.

— Produced by Ty Callender