The Canada-born, LA-based singer and songwriter Esthero has been making music steadily since the late-'90s trip-hop era. She's worked with André 3000, Timbaland, and Brandy. She's played the voice of the robot computer spaceship lady on Kanye West's Glow In The Dark tour. But none of that means she's rich. These days, Esthero is an…

Real talk: Kanye West's 2008 Glow in the Dark tour was the sort of pop spectacle we don't get to see nearly often enough anymore. It was a conceptually rigorous, utterly batshit concert-as-narrative that found Kanye ignoring the crowd and instead talking to a fake spaceship computer with Esthero's voice. The special effects were nuts, the stage ...