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Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020: Lenny Kravitz, Nina Lee Aquino and more

Today on q: singer-songwriter and actor Lenny Kravitz, singer-songwriter Daniela Andrade, Factory Theatre artistic director Nina Lee Aquino, rapper Backxwash.
Singer-songwriter and actor Lenny Kravitz, singer-songwriter Daniela Andrade, Factory Theatre artistic director Nina Lee Aquino, rapper Backxwash. (Submitted by Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, Vivian Rashotte/CBC, Cesar Ghisilieri, Bianca Lecompte)

Today on q, with Tom Power:

  • Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Lenny Kravitz reflects on his new memoir, in which he writes about the first 25 years of his life, from his upbringing in New York to the release of his 1989 debut album.

  • Singer-songwriter Daniela Andrade talks about her new song Alone and what she learned from writing her latest EP in quarantine.

  • Nina Lee Aquino, the artistic director of Toronto's Factory Theatre, discusses the future of performing arts in Canada, and how they were able to make their new season of virtual programming free of charge. 

  • Montreal-based rapper and producer Backxwash opens up about the powerful reverberations her musical journey is having on both her artistic life and her personal life as a Black trans artist.