As a deluge of artists seek to be the next digital flash in the pan, Semiah is a breath of fresh mountain air. She’s as at home on stage, where she’s spent 20 of her 25 years, as she is chopping firewood or on an urban dancefloor in bejewelled glam. Regularly showered with encores and standing ovations for her live performances, Semiah moves effortlessly from intimate solo club shows to large concert theatres accompanied by dancers and musicians. Like a flirty dervish storyteller who can tear your heart out with a side-eye giggle, she has the uncanny ability to etch herself into the souls of swooning concertgoers. But don’t let the playful cowgirl edge fool you; she has more spiritual depth than most twice her age. Her latest single, “Withdrawals,” is an electro-pop punk love-gone-wrong so...