BIOGRAPHY

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LEAVE DOOMSDAY CULT ✔

FALL IN LOVE ✔

MAKE MUSIC ✔

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ONCE A TREE IS AN ALT-POP MUSIC DUO MADE UP OF ANISHINAABE/CREE/DANE SINGER SONG-WRITER JAYLI WOLF AND SONG-WRITER / PRODUCER HAYDEN WOLF. WITH HEARTFELT LYRICS FORGED FROM THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, THE COUPLE RELEASED THEIR AWARD-WINNING DEBUT ALBUM 'PHOENIX' IN NOVEMBER OF 2017 FOLLOWED BY 'FOOL'S PARADISE' (2020), ‘THE GOOD, THE BAD’ (2021), AND MOST RECENT 'I WONDER HOW THIS ENDS' (2024).

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THE TWO MET WHILE LEAVING THE DOOMSDAY RELIGION THEY WERE BOTH RAISED IN. EXCOMMUNICATED BY THEIR COMMUNITY, THEY DECIDED TO USE MUSIC AS THEIR VOICE. THEY FELL IN LOVE AND BEGAN WRITING FOLK MUSIC IN A SMALL VALLEY TOWN NEAR THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. WHEN JAYLI WON A SONGWRITING COMPETITION, THE TWO WERE FLOWN TO TORONTO TO SHOOT A MUSIC VIDEO. THEY ARRIVED IN THE CITY WITH TWO SUITCASES AND A GUITAR; LOOKING FOR A FRESH START AND DETERMINED TO PURSUE THEIR DREAMS.

 

AFTER RELOCATING TO TORONTO, HAYDEN WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE REMIX PROJECT WHERE HE WAS ABLE TO HONE HIS MUSIC PRODUCTION SKILLS. THE TWO BEGAN TO EVOLVE THEIR SOUND, INFUSING MELLOW BEATS WITH DREAM-POP MELODIES. ONCE A TREE WAS BORN.

 

THE DUO HAS GONE ON TO HAVE THEIR MUSIC, SELF-DIRECTED VISUALS, AND STORIES FEATURED ON OUTLETS LIKE ROLLING STONE, BILLBOARD, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, BUZZFEED, GLOBAL NEWS, MTV, & VICE.

 

JAYLI HAS ALSO SINCE VENTURED INTO CREATING HER OWN SOLO PROJECT THAT HIGHLIGHTS HER MORE PERSONAL STORIES OF ‘POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH’, RECLAIMING HER INDIGENOUS CULTURE, AND FINDING PRIDE IN HER BISEXUALITY.

 

ONCE A TREE PRESSES FORWARD SHARING THEIR STORIES AS THEY CONTINUE EXPLORING THEIR CREATIVITY THROUGH MUSIC AND FILM.