Kiesza – Giant In My Heart

“Giant in My Heart” was written by Kiesza and Rami Samir Afuni, and produced by the latter.^[1] In an interview with KAMP-FM’s Carson Daly, Kiesza elaborated on the anonymous male vocalist featured in “Giant in My Heart”,

“I’ve never actually met him. My friend, who was my roommate, we were like, ‘I need a voice of like, an older, black guy.’ You know that like soulful, old man voice? And then my friend’s like, ‘I know someone!’ So, we just sent it to him and he brings it back and this was the voice and we were like, ‘Awesome!'”^[2]

The song serves as the second single from Kiesza’s forthcoming debut album, Sound of a Woman (2014). It was premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show on June 13, 2014.^[3] “Giant in My Heart” was digitally released as a single and four-track remixes extended play (EP) in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2014.^[4][5] A two-track CD single was later released in Germany on September 5, 2014.^[6]