Sam I Am Montolla is a Montreal artist who explores singing, music production, movement and healing with sound. In Music, Soul, RnB, Hip Hop, and Funk is where she likes to play, not forgetting her Caribbean heritage. She has been on the Palmarès Adisq Radio Campus list, Canadian Music Week 2021; in 2022 she released music with Potions Music NYC, and was a feature on Boddhi Satva’s album “Manifestation”, and Waahli’s “Soap Box” and in 2024, Monk.E’s “Sculpteur d’étoiles”. You can also see her perform on stages with THE SHED. As a certified sound healer/therapist, her venture, Sound I Am Sanctuary, is where she shares events on Sound baths and private sessions with the community and tips for self-care. She was part of the OFFTA 2024 line-up for her piece “Where Me and My Father Reside” where she explores Trinidadian music and culture in relation to her father, being highlighted and in residencies with B-Side, Studio 303 and La Serre. Working on bringing music, movement and wellness, presenting them as art and using them as mediums to connect to the community; she is now part of the CCOV (Centre de Création O Vertigo).
Over the years, Sam I Am Montolla has been redefining what Soul music, in particular, is to her. Working on her next solo album, looking at releasing it Summer 2025, she is fully pursuing beat-making. Her performances range from live production, engaging the audience with movement, creating an atmosphere for inspiration to flourish, leaving room for spontaneity and self-expression in her lyrics. Music is alive! And the exchange with acoustic sound and produced beats excite her. Her sounds can be heard in the solo piece “Traceable” by Nubian Nene that was performed at the MAI in 2025, where she composed and produced the music. She also explores this in her self-produced projects SoulAH System and AGLOW. For her next album, it’s the most ambitious yet, not only making the beats, but also the lyrics and with her voice; she is recognizing in herself an artist that is deeply inspired by life happenings and about the message. She aims to bring together all of who she is wrapped into what is now called the present.
Sam I Am Montolla 