Her one-line Facebook bio is: \u201cCreator of country music for the chronically sincere.\u201d She writes, records, produces, and engineers her own recordings, manages her career, designs her live production and books her own gigs \u2013 all without a label, management, or support team. That\u2019s a lot of energy coming from Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, and it might help relieve some of Ontario\u2019s power grid. That\u2019s also a stellar definition of \u201cIndependent\u201d.<\/p>\n
Makinna\u2019s name first started buzzing around CMAOntario circles when, in March of 2026, a jury of 11 industry experts picked her as one of the 6 finalists in the Igniter Songwriter Camp, a CMAOntario \/ Songwriters Association of Canada joint initiative. She competed against 43 other entrants, including several far more recognizable names.<\/p>\n
The attention doesn\u2019t stop there. She\u2019s earned support from SiriusXM Top of the Country, CBC Radio, and Apple Music editorial playlists, and has been featured by CTV News. Makinna has opened major festival main stages alongside Russell Dickerson, Kip Moore, Kameron Marlowe, Josh Ross, Owen Riegling, and Sass Jordan, was a Top 4 finalist in the Country Rising Competition and a Lucknow Music in the Fields Emerging Artist. With an impressive schedule from acoustic gigs at wineries to a full band show at this year\u2019s Crooks Rapids Country Fest, she\u2019s putting the \u201cBiz\u201d in \u201cBusy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Makinna has a predisposition for taking on some gritty lyric topics with grace. In this writer\u2019s opinion, \u201cIf We Meet Again\u201d and \u201cCheap Cigarettes\u201d should have attracted more ears when they first dropped\u2026 but released music is forever and you can still check them out. The video for \u201cPretty\u201d dropped in the last week of August, and that deserves carving some time out of your day as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s obvious that Makinna Givens is not real big on standing still, so you\u2019re gonna have to stomp on that gas pedal to keep up with her. Here\u2019s where you can start:<\/p>\n
Instagram | <\/a>TikTok | <\/a>Facebook | <\/a>YouTube | <\/a>Spotify | <\/a>Apple Music<\/a><\/p>\n Par Matt Ersnaught<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Her one-line Facebook bio is: \u201cCreator of country music for the chronically sincere.\u201d She writes, records, produces, and engineers her own recordings, manages her career, designs her live production and…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":52719,"featured_media":74115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-of-the-month-2026"],"yoast_head":"\n