Kiesza joins the NFT trend and raises money for prostheses

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Hideaway Kiesza, a hit maker who suffered a brain injury in a serious car accident in Toronto in 2017, uses that experience as a new NFT fundraiser to help amputees children and animals get 3D-printed custom-made prostheses. We are incorporating it into our activities.

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“I think I would have taken a very different approach to NFT space without the accident,” said a Toronto-based electro-pop artist from near Cody, Wyoming, where she first was. Dig a dinosaur.

In 2017, she suffered a traumatic brain injury when Uber broke her T bone in Toronto by a red-lighting taxi on her way to meet a friend for dinner.

Born in Kiesa Rae Ellestad, Kiesza has partnered with 3D visual artist Luke Didlo to release the MetaMoves motion capture NFT, which is auctioned by auction house Portion.

“I was related to (MetaMoves) being robbed of something, including my entire career (beginning with her hit in 2014) in a major car accident. Hideaway) And it’s a big part of my social life, “added Kiesza. “My life has changed completely in a car accident. I’ve got some of what I’ve lost again, but if I lose my limbs, I’ll never come back.”

The actual Meta Moves work was taken from Kiesza playing her song. passenger To Ellen’s room During April.

“We only sell motion,” Kiesza said. “You can buy dance moves, your avatar can dance, but not only can you dance, you are dancing like my Kieza. We are in the metaverse of the digital world. We are moving towards, but from that income we are building the physical limbs of the physical world. “

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Meanwhile, Kiesza’s next record — a follow-up to the efforts of sophomores in 2020 craving — She said it would be a “full dance album”. “It’s almost done.”

And because she suffers from cluster headaches, sometimes daily or weekly, her recovery is still going on.

“I’m definitely healing slowly every day,” she said. “I’m going to show all summer. They’ll be a hybrid of my albums, and I might actually sneak some of these new songs into my set. I would like to see my show again in the fall. “
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What is an NFT?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets where everything from art to music is bought and sold online.