Krystle Dos Santos

About

The artist

Krystle Dos Santos is a Vancouver-based soul, jazz, and R&B singer-songwriter, actor, creator, bandleader, and community organizer. Raised in Edmonton and rooted in a Guyanese family background, she studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts before building a career across recordings, concert stages, theatre, and music education. Her self-titled debut arrived in 2008 and received the 2009 Western Canadian Music Award for Urban Recording of the Year. Fame Fatale followed in 2011, and Bloom Burn arrived in 2020 with ten songs. That third album received the 2020 Western Canadian Music Award for R&B Artist of the Year. The exact Spotify identity contains seven primary album and single containers from 2008 through February 2026: three albums and four singles. The current single HABIBTI is a collaboration with Sa-Young. Apple Music presents the same three-album catalog and exact 2026 release under artist ID 287203399. Alongside her solo catalog, Dos Santos is a member of the country-rock project Orchard Sky with Mitch Smith. She also created and performs projects that use music to share Black Canadian history, including Hey Viola!, BLAK: Canadian Women in Music, A History of Motown, Underneath The Harlem Moon, and Meet Me At Vie's. Her current activity includes a 2025 to 2026 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship at Simon Fraser University, the 2025 full theatre production of A History of Motown, a monthly Vancouver cabaret series, the 2026 release HABIBTI, and a schedule of British Columbia performances through December 2026. Current official and independent sources identify her as based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Professional inquiries route through her official contact page, with no direct personal contact details republished. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.