Kandle Maria Osborne, known professionally as Kandle, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician born on 14 October 1990 in Victoria. She began her musical journey with the group The Blue Violets before moving to Montreal in 2010 to collaborate with Sam Goldberg Jr. and form her backing band, The Krooks. She released her debut eponymous extended play, Kandle (2012), and followed it with the studio album In Flames (2014). The music video for her track “Not Up To Me” (2014) won the Prism Prize Audience Award in 2015. After signing with Sleepless Records in 2017, she released her second studio album, Holy Smoke (2018), which featured the single “When My Body Breaks” (2018). Osborne formed the folk-art project A Family Curse with her father, Neil Osborne, in 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she independently issued the singles “How Can You Hurt Me” (2020) and “Little Bad Things” (2020). Her discography also includes the studio album Set the Fire (2021).
