Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Elisapie early winners at Junos industry gala

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 29, 2025 9:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago

Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie and Haisla hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids were aboriginal winners astatine the Juno Awards manufacture ceremony.

The Saturday evening soirée saw Elisapie's popular covers postulation Inuktitut pick up big alternate album, portion Rez Kids' Red Future landed rap medium of the year.

The Junos hardware was handed retired during an manufacture gala lawsuit successful Vancouver, wherever prizes successful much than 40 categories volition beryllium awarded, including azygous and medium of the year, arsenic good arsenic a caller Juno recognizing South Asian music.

Other aboriginal winners included No Time by Interplanetary Criminal and SadBoi, which earned creation signaling of the year. This But More by Priori won physics album.

Country vocalist Josh Ross and popular prima Tate McRae headed into the play arsenic the apical contenders with 5 nominations each.

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Folk vocalist Sarah Harmer volition person this year's humanitarian grant for her advocacy of biology and quality rights issues.

The ceremony, which streams unrecorded connected CBC Music's YouTube leafage starting astatine 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET, is simply a precursor to Sunday's televised CBC broadcast hosted by Michael Bublé.

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Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences main enforcement Allan Reid, whose enactment presents the Junos, says Bublé jumped astatine the accidental to big for a 3rd clip aft taking the relation successful 2013 and 2018.

Reid says this year's amusement takes connected caller value successful the discourse of the Canada-U.S. commercialized dispute, with Canadian artists "at the forefront of culture" and helping "define who we are arsenic a nation."

Bublé said connected Friday he's letting his actions talk for his nationalist pridefulness by hosting the Juno Awards successful Vancouver this weekend, arsenic Canada-U.S. tensions surge successful the background.

Bublé says helium doesn't privation to "add to the vigor of a troll" by being excessively vocal amid the quality but is alternatively focusing his vigor arsenic a arrogant Canadian connected "why we're truthful special" and "unique."

He says helium doesn't instrumentality the work of celebrating the champion of Canadian euphony lightly.