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Quebec well represented among semi-finalists:
To celebrate his 20e Birthday. Therefore, the Polaris Prize presents a list of 20 preselected songs for the first time for the price of the best song of the year. However, Several Quebec artists are there: Backxwash, Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Kaytranada, Klô Pelgag and Marie Davidson.
The list. Similarly, published on Tuesday, reveals the 20 songs in the running to win the award that will be awarded during a gala in Toronto on September 16. Therefore, Six of the songs on the list are the work of Quebec artists.
With a value of $ 10. For example, 000, the Polaris de la Chanson prize, in collaboration with the Canadian company of authors, composers and music publishers (SOCAN), will reward the best Canadian song, all genres combined, based on the artistic value of the song. However, A new prize that “will allow to have a broader quebec well represented among semi-finalists perspective on the musical year”. Furthermore, believes the professor of musicology at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) Danick Trottier.
Backxwash. For example, the Canadian rapper of Zambian origin based in Montreal, is appointed for her songs History of Violence et 9th Heaven. She also won the Polaris Prize given to the best Canadian album in 2020. for God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It.
The title Call U Upfrom Quebec composer of Haitian origin Kaytranada. in collaboration with his brother, rapper Lou Phelps, is in the running for the prize for the best song. He won the Polaris Prize for his album 99. 9 %in 2016, when he “was not yet enormously known to the general public, even if he was very well known in the industry,” notes the UQAM professor. His album Bubba was among albums in the running for the Polaris Prize of 2020.
The quebec well represented among semi-finalists Author-Compositor-Interpreter of Quebec Lou-Adriane Cassidy is appointed for her song Tell me tell me tell me. His most recent album, Sad animalalso appears on the list of 40 albums preselected for the Prix Polaris 2025.
The title The taste of mangoesfrom Quebec artist Klô Pelgag, is on the list of semi-finalists for the song prize. Additionally, His recent album, Abracadabrais also in the running to win the Polaris Prize for the Canadian album of the year.
The electronic artist and poet from Montreal Marie Davidson is also one of the semi-finalists with his song Fun times. Son album City of Clowns Figure on the list of albums pre -selected for Polaris prizes for the best. Canadian album 2025.
The final list, presenting the five finalist songs for the prize, will be unveiled on July 29.
Quebec well represented among semi-finalists
A prestigious price
Since 2006. the Polaris Prize has honored the best Canadian album quebec well represented among semi-finalists every year and has “welded Canadian culture”, according to Mr. Trottier.
A group of music critics selected from one end to the other in the country awards the price without regard to musical gender. commercial popularity. The professor of musicology argues that this prestigious reward highlights “an artist who often has a little more independent. less commercial side, but who is illustrated with his artistic work”, in a context where the musical offer is “abundant”.
The Polaris Prize has already demonstrated “its relevance. its interest in arouse a strong moment around a career, often a young career,” explains Danick Trottier, taking the example of Patrick Watson, who won the album of the year in 2007.
Several Quebec artists have won this award in recent years. In 2023. Debby Friday, an artist born in Nigeria and who grew up in Montreal, won the Polaris Prize for his first album, Good Luck. In 2022, the quebec well represented among semi-finalists Montrealer of Congolese origin Pierre Kwenders was rewarded for the album José Louis And the Paradox of Love.
Polaris justifies the creation of the new price by the constant growth of the number of pieces produced each year. “Canadian musicians creating more. more singles Each year, a prize in this segment offers more artists more opportunities to be recognized and supported by Polaris, its partners and the industry, “said the organization in a press release.
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