Forest Blakk
The music of Forest Blakk comes from an unshakable sense of purpose, a belief in building beauty from life's most painful moments. Growing up in Montreal, with time spent in Florida and Jamaica, Forest first took up guitar as a refuge from his chaotic home life, then spent years learning to channel his most complex emotions into song. With his breakthrough single, the RIAA platinum-certified “If You Love Her” - a fall 2020 release that marked his Billboard debut - Forest brought his heart-on-his-sleeve songwriting to a whole new level of resonance, again proving music's power to transform both audience and artist. At age 15, he began exploring his musical side by learning to play a guitar given to him by his grandmother. Soon after moving to Calgary at age 21, he formed a band that later earned a JUNO nomination. In the years following the band's dissolution, Blakk experienced a period of profound change, ultimately embracing the more soulful and folk-leaning sound that defines his music today. Forest’s song “Fall Into Me” - co-written with Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty and Gregg Wattenberg - has now been certified gold by the RIAA for sales over 500K. Forest has also been called “the patron saint of ‘Love Is Blind’” having multiple songs appearing on that show.