Esteban Seunarine has built a musical language from everything he was never supposed to combine. The rhythms of the Caribbean and Latin America were the sound of his childhood home; the indie and folk scenes of the Canadian prairies were the sound of the city that claimed him. He didn't choose between them, and he still hasn't.
The recipient of the 2026 SABIAN–Dom Famularo–SEN Mentorship Award, Seunarine is releasing The Expanding Whatever in fall 2026 — his third album, and his most personal. Where earlier records negotiated between his influences, this one simply lets them coexist. Jazz fusion and prairie folk, the grand and the mundane, the ambitious and the unhurried. It is music that pays attention to small things — the moments most people don't think to write songs about — and finds in them something worth sitting with.