Kaytranada obtained dance recording of the year for Bubba. He’s the first Unlit male solo winner within the dance class, which originated in 1992. Bubba obtained within the equal class, most efficient dance/electronic album, at the Grammys on March 14.
WondaGurl (Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde) grew to was the first Unlit woman to favor the Jack Richardson producer of the year award. Moreover, WondaGurl is the first female of any bustle or ethnicity to favor in this class who isn’t primarily identified as an artist. WondaGurl, a Canadian producer, songwriter and file executive, has labored with such artists as Pop Smoke, JackBoys, Mariah Carey, Travis Scott, Jay-Z, Drake and Kanye West.
Harry Kinds’ Fine Line obtained global album of the year. The album has been a world award magnet. Its most engrossing hit, “Watermelon Sugar,” obtained a Grammy for a ramification of effective pop solo efficiency and a Brit Award for British single.
Alanis Morissette obtained grownup sleek album of the year for Such Somewhat Forks within the Motorway. That is the third sure vogue class whereby Morissette has obtained a Juno. Jagged Small Capsule obtained rock album of the year (1996). Flavors of Entanglement obtained pop album of the year (2009). That is Morissette’s 13th Juno Award.
JJ Wilde’s Ruthless obtained rock album of the year. She’s the first female winner in that class since Morissette obtained for Jagged Small Capsule.
Tenille Townes obtained nation album of the year for The Lemonade Stand. Townes obtained sleek female artist of the year at the Academy of Nation Music Awards in September.
Jessie Reyez obtained tune video of the year for “No One’s within the Room.” Reyez is the first Latin Canadian artist to favor in this class since its inception in 1984. Reyez obtained the Juno for step forward artist of the year three years within the past.
Serban Ghenea obtained recording engineer of the year for his work with The Weeknd and Ariana Grande. Ghenea obtained two Grammys this year, for work on Taylor Swift’s Folklore and Beck’s Hyperspace, bringing his complete of Grammys to 18.
Arkells obtained neighborhood of the year for the fourth time, which places them factual one award within the back of class leaders Blue Rodeo, which obtained 5 situations within the class between 1989 and 2008. (For all their success at dwelling, neither neighborhood has ever cracked the Billboard Sizzling 100.)
The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal obtained its 18th Juno by taking classical album of the year: mountainous ensemble. That places them in fourth plight on the all-time winners checklist, factual within the back of Anne Murray (25), Bryan Adams (21) and Céline Dion (20).
Pegi Cecconi, who has labored with Flee amongst many others in her 50-year profession, bought the Walt Grealis special fulfillment award. She is factual the third woman to obtain that award, which originated in 1984. Tellingly, all three of these ladies have bought the award within the closing 5 years.
Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe from CBC Music’s The Block hosted the Juno Opening Evening Awards. The occasion featured performances by Ammoye, Kirk Diamond and TÖME, Crown Lands, Klo? Pelgag, Lindsay Ell and MacKenzie Porter, Monowhales & TOBi.
Allan Reid, president/CEO of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (CARAS), opened the display on a solemn reward, acknowledging the sizzling discovery of 215 our bodies at a venerable residential college for Indigenous kids in Canada. Several award recipients also made reward of that horrific discovery.
Reid also announced that the 2022 Junos shall be return to Toronto, when, all americans hopes, pandemic worries shall be within the back of us.
Next year can even have three sleek classes – veteran indigenous artist or neighborhood of the year, rap single of the year and rap album/EP of the year.
Here’s the entire checklist of winners from Friday’s displays:
Single of the year: “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd (The Weeknd XO/Republic/Universal)
Songwriter of the year: The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye), Belly (Ahmad Balshe), & Jason “DaHeala” Quenneville; publishers – Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music Canada, & Universal Music Publishing Canada; “After Hours” – co-songwriters Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese, Mario Winans; “Blinding Lights”, “Attach Your Tears” – co-songwriters Max Martin, Oscar Holter; After Hours – The Weeknd (The Weeknd XO/Republic/Universal)
Neighborhood of the year: Arkells (Arkells/Universal)
Step forward neighborhood of the year: Crown Lands (Universal)
Global album of the year: Fine Line, Harry Kinds (Columbia/Sony)
Dance recording of the year: Bubba, Kaytranada (RCA/Sony)
As much as date R&B recording of the year: After Hours, The Weeknd (The Weeknd XO/Republic/Universal)
Rap recording of the year: Sides Vol. 1, TOBi (RCA/Sony)
Nation album of the year: The Lemonade Stand, Tenille Townes (Sony)
Adult more than a few album of the year: Sad Hunk, Bahamas (Barchords/Universal)
Alternative album of the year: Pray for It, July Notify (Sleepless/Universal)
Rock album of the year: Ruthless, JJ Wilde (Unlit Box/Fontana North)
Digital album of the year: Abruptly, Caribou (Merge/F.A.B.)
Metal/exhausting tune album of the year: Abyss, Unleash the Archers (Napalm/Sony)
Adult sleek album of the year: Such Somewhat Forks within the Motorway, Alanis Morissette (Epiphany Music/Sony/The Orchard)
Music video of the year: “No One’s within the Room,” Emma Higgins/Jessie Reyez, FMLY/Island/Universal. Canadian Contributors — director of pictures: Jack Yan Chen; producers: Alison Honey Woods, Cherie Sinclair, Katy Maravala; editor: Kat Webber; artwork division: Stephen Trivieri; special results: The Butcher Shop, City Prairie Put up
Jack Richardson producer of the year: WondaGurl; “Aim for the Moon” (that comprises Quavo) (co-producers 5ive Beatz, 808Melo, Dani, Dez Wright, Tyy Beats); Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon – Pop Smoke, Victor Victor/Republic/Universal; “Gang Gang” (co-producer Vou); Jackboys – Jackboys & Sheck Wes, Myth/Cactus Jack/Sony
Recording engineer of the year: Serban Ghenea; “Blinding Lights”/After Hours – The Weeknd (The Weeknd XO/Republic/Universal); “positions”/Positions – Ariana Grande (Republic/Universal)
Reggae recording of the year: “I Pray,” TÖME x Sean Kingston (Kiza Music/M.A.D. Solution)
Indigenous artist or neighborhood of the year: “North Necessary person Calling,” Leela Gilday (Diva Sound/Outside)
As much as date roots album of the year: Bravado, Rose Cousins (Outside)
Ancient roots album of the year: Wager on Love, Pharis & Jason Romero (Lula/Fontana North/Free Dirt)
Blues album of the year: Church Home Blues, Crystal Shawanda (Fair correct North/Fontana North/IDLA)
As much as date Christian/gospel album of the year: The Manner, Shawna Cain (SOG Entertainment/Fair)
World tune album of the year: Espiral, Okan (Lulaworld/Symphonic)
Album artwork of the year: Julien Hébert (artwork director), David Beauchemin (vogue designer), Florence Obrecht (illustrator), Marc-Étienne Mongrain (photographer); Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs – Klô Pelgag Secret City/Fontana North
Comedy album of the year: Horse Vitality, Jacob Samuel (800 Pound Gorilla/Fair/ADA/Warner)
Vocal jazz album of the year: With You, Sammy Jackson (Fair)
Jazz album of the year, solo: Fascinating Traveler, Jocelyn Gould (Posi-tone/Alliance/The Orchard)
Jazz album of the year, neighborhood: The reMission, Andy Milne and Unison (Sunnyside/AMPED/eOne)
Instrumental album of the year: Actions III, Blitz/Berlin (Wax/Universal)
Album Francophone de l’année: Quand la nuit tombe, Louis-Jean Cormier (Simone/The Orchard)
Kids’s album of the year: Heart Parade, Splash’N Boots (Fair/The Orchard)
Classical album of the year, solo or chamber: Mosaïque, Ensemble Made in Canada (Fair/Canadian Music Centre)
Classical album of the year, mountainous ensemble: Ginastera – Bernstein – Moussa: Œuvres pour violon et orchestre / Works for Violin and Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano, that comprises Andrew Wan (Analekta/Ranking/The Orchard)
Classical album of the year, vocal or choral: Massenet: Thaïs Erin Wall, Joshua Hopkins, Andrew Staples, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis (Chandos/Naxos)
Classical composition of the year: Violin Concerto “Adrano,” Samy Moussa (Analekta/Ranking/The Orchard)
