Tate McRAE took four awards home, including the artist and album of the year, at the Juno Awards industry on Saturday, although the global pop star was absent because it was reserved to appear at a music festival in Brazil.
“I just want to thank everyone in the JunosAnd all my fans in Canada who have been with me since the beginning of this wild trip, “the singer wrote in a text message that is read aloud on stage.
Junos hardware was delivered during the gala in Vancouver, where prizes were awarded in more than 40 categories before Sunday’s televised ceremony, such as the new Juno that recognizes the music of South Asia.
Elizabeth Lowell Boland won the first composer prize of the year created for non -filmmakers. She collected the prize for her work behind the scene in Beyonce’s Cowboy Album and the beaches’ You need one to know one.
The Boland raised in Calgary pressed to divide the Juno category of song composition into two awards, interpreter and non -playing, after seeing the only trophy of Juno songs composition constantly won by the well -known scenic artists.
“I’ve been fighting for this award,” Boland said.
“I took the people from the parties. It was really annoying. I joked that people would flee from me when they saw me at parties, because I wasn’t really interested in mixing. I just wanted to change this little thing.”
Inuk Elisapie’s singer and composer and Haisla’s hip-hop duo, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, were early winners at the industry ceremony.
The soyee on Saturday night saw Elisapie’s pop covers collection Inuktitut Collect an alternative album for adults, while Rez Kids’ Red future Land of the rap album of the year.
“I had a good crying walking here,” said Darren Metz by Rez Kids in the press room.
“When you work so hard towards something for so long, and finally you understand it, all the emotions you supported throughout that trip simply come out.”
Other winners included There is no time By interplanetary criminal and Sadboi, who obtained the dance recording of the year.
The popular singer Sarah Harmer received this year’s humanitarian award for her defense of the problems of environmental and human rights of environmentalist David Suzuki.
Other great winners included Mustafa, who was not present to accept his two Junos. Its self -directed God’s name He was appointed music video of the year, and also won a composer of the year.
The Punjabi music star, AP Dhillon, was also missing, so he could not accept the first Juno Music Recording Award from Asia del Sur. Your album The brown footprint He won the category.
Nemahsis He won for the great artist of the year, referring again to how his label dropped her for her pro-palestine position. But the Palestinian Canadian artist promised in her speech to play a day in her album in the region devastated by war.
Aqyila obtained a contemporary R&B recording of the year to Bloomwhile priori This but more by electronic album cattle.
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The elegant Bluegrass musician in the style of the 1950s accepted his juno dressed in a retro suit accentuated by musical notes on the necklace.
“I am aware that I am living in 2025, or whatever,” he said with an outstanding timbre in his voice.
“And I can dress in a certain way, or play a certain style of music, but I still grew up in the generation in which I grew up … this type of performance, this type of entertainment really lacks in the music industry today. We need to bring it back. And I am trying to do it.”
Nobro He also took the stage to act before grabbing the rock album of the year.
The ceremony is a precursor to the televised transmission of CBC on Sunday presented by Michael Bublé.
McRAE was one of the most nominated artists this year, along with the country singer Josh Ross, with five nominations each.
Summary | See artists react to their awards at the gala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owbdu2azxq8
The executive president of the Canadian Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Sciences, Allan Reid, whose organization presents Junos, says that Bublé took the opportunity to organize for the third time after assuming the role in 2013 and 2018.
Reid says that this year’s program acquires a new importance in the context of the trade of Canada-United States, with Canadian artists “at the forefront of culture” and helping to “define who we are as a nation.”
Vancouver will be the host of 2025 Junos on March 30, turning the sand of the Rogers into a celebration of all musical genres, from field ballads to rap of southern Asia. The Canadian singer Michael Bublé will be the host, and that is the reason enough for the senior entertainment reporter Eli Glasner to get excited.
Bublé said Friday that he is letting his actions speak for his national pride by organizing the Juno awards in Vancouver this weekend, as Canada-United States tensions increase in the background.
Bublé says he does not want to “add to the energy of a troll” being too vocal in the middle of the dispute, but in his place he is focusing his energy as a proud Canadian in “why we are so special” and “unique.”
He says he does not take the duty to celebrate the best of Canadian music lightly.
Before organizing the 2025 Juno awards, Michael Bublé intervened in what it means to be Canadian in the middle of the backdrop of the current commercial war with the United States
