Stacy Darko, aka KÔSA, is a Toronto-based classically-trained R&B/soul artist and producer.

Having undergone an early music education at the Regent Park School of Music and the Etobicoke School of the Arts, she continued her studies at the University of British Columbia. I talk to KÔSA about how RPSM helped to nurture her passion for music; how she grew up on an eclectic diet of classical, top-40 pop, and Afrofuturistic R&B; and her latest EP entitled Tempest Love.