
Our Line Up
Wake Up! 2025 will feature BIPOC and Queer artists from across the Lower Mainland, including some student performers from KPU. For more information about our artists, please visit our Media page.
Ndidi Cascade

Performing for the second time at Wake Up! — Ndidi Cascade is a Vancouver-born-and-based hip-hop artist who is of Nigerian, Italian, and Irish heritage.
A songwriter, vocalist, educator, facilitator and curator, Ndidi has showcased her music, from classrooms to stadiums globally, opening for mega-talents such as Wu-Tang Clan & Femi Kuti.
Ndidi Cascade facilitates youth empowerment workshops and hip hop education school programs, using hip-hop as a medium for healthy self-expression. She is also a cultural curator and ambassador for the Ethós Lab youth empowerment organization.
Ndidi Cascade is the creator and producer of ORIGINZ, which is an interactive school show exploring roots of hip hop and Afro-centric music and how it connect to BIPOC struggle and joy.
She also tours the festival and school circuits both as a solo artist, and with her collaborative bands including Metaphor & Mad Riddim.
Ndidi Cascade is a curator for annual festivals such as Black Music Month Vancouver.
Lowkita
Lowkita is Afro Caribbean Canadian recording and performing artist, known for both rapping and her R&B-style vocals. She is influenced by her Carribean roots, Hip Hop, and UK grime. Her journey began in Calgary at a dancer and actor, but at 13 she found her way to music.
She is also incredibly versatile in tone — her most recent singles are “Likkle Honey,” a swaggering warcry full of boasts and icy, menacing dancehall, and “Selective,” a warped, near-psychedelic groove with an inspirational overtone.
Lowkita creates her own sound, designs, and look in whatever lane she is driving in. Along with performing, Lowkita has taken her passion for writing and created a blog which highlights some of her favourite people and products within the Caribbean community.

Chico Zander

Based in Vancouver, Chico Zander is a single-manned creative force whose been making music since 2018.
Even though Chico's true rock-n-roll enthusiast, he’s not afraid to bend genres and experiment with new sounds. Inspired by bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, and Joy Division, Chico plays the role of songwriter, instrumentalist, producer and more.
After a two year hiatus, he returned in 2024 with a new direction for his music to go in.
Kelly Pang

Kelly Pang is first generation Chinese Canadian singer and songwriter born in Montreal. She is a third-year General Studies student at KPU and is minoring in music.
Pang wrote her first song when she was 14 years old and since then, music has always had a big impact on Pang’s life. It helps her express herself, her ideas and emotions. Coming from a background in music, a creative outlet for Pang, her songs contain deep ideas, meaning, and thoughts.
Pang will be performing August 19, which is about her sister. After not getting to see each other during the COVID-19 pandemic, Pang got to put things into perspective and realized why family is important.
Coming from an Asian background they don’t talk about their feelings a lot, it is crucial for her to create a safe place where people from that demographic feel seen.
A lot of her music is light, and she wants to be a teacher and incorporate music into her teaching. She hopes to create music for kids to help them express their feelings and have a song they can resonate with.
Karrality
Karrality is a singer and songwriter from a small village called Raisovka in the north of Kazakhstan, and has been singing since she was a child.
She wrote her first song when she was 16 started releasing her music to the world in 2022. She first released music in Russian, then Karrality started releasing her music in English after moving to Canada in 2023.
Having lived in Russia for a few years, she found her mentor who helped her develop and find her voice.
She is excited to perform her songs Plastic Boy, More, Siren, I Miss You — all songs she wrote after coming to Canada.
Karrality does not limit her music to a specific genre and has been experimenting with rap and pop music. Through her music, she wants to connect with people and share stories.
