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July 20, 2023 61 mins

She’s a multi award winning recording artist, actress and is known as Canada’s Queen of R&B. Mary sits down with Canadian icon, Jully Black, at one of her favourite restaurants in the city, Sugarkane. Jully shares the story of how she was first signed on, what it was like to perform across the city back when she started, why she changed that one word on the Canadian national anthem at the NBA All-Star game and her first full-length album in more than a decade.

Restaurant: Sugarkane Restaurant, Toronto 

02:29 – growing up in Toronto

07:55 – performing across the city in her early days

12:55 – going to Seneca college for a degree in law enforcement

19:17 – performing the Canadian national anthem at the NBA all-star game

34:14 – Winning the Juno for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

43:16 – playing ‘Veronika’ in ‘Da Kink in My Hair’

53: 50 - Latest album ‘Three Rocks and a Slingshot’  

56:54 – Rapid fire questions!

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