Elliot Web page got here to the Junos Awards on Sunday evening to denounce a rollback of LGBTQ2+ rights after the Umbrella Academy star got here out as a transgender and nonbinary on the finish of 2020.
“We’re at a time in historical past the place the rights of LGBTQ2+ individuals are being revoked, restricted and eradicated all through the world, and the results are devastating,” Web page stated when citing the work by the Tegan and Sara Basis to help and construct social change for trans and queer youth on the Junos in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“If the world was not so hostile to LGBTQ2+ folks, we might see ourselves purely as musicians,” Sara Quin, one half of the Canadian indie pop musicians Tegan and Sara, instructed the Juno viewers. She known as out the province of Alberta for not too long ago proposing to limit well being take care of transgender youth, together with halting entry to hormone remedy for kids aged 15 and underneath.
“Advocating for our neighborhood’s rights is a superb privilege and we’re devoted to confronting any type of discrimination that threatens the well-being of our neighborhood,” Sara Quin added as sister Tegan and Web page appeared on in Halifax.
Additionally on the Junos, Canada’s model of the Grammys, on Sunday evening, Charlotte Cardin took residence the prize for greatest album of the yr for 99 Nights. Cardin got here into the Junos with a field-leading six nominations, and she or he was additionally the massive winner on the 2022 Junos, the place she picked up 4 trophies, together with greatest artist of the yr.
Different Juno winners included Nicholas Durocher, also called Speak, selecting up the trophy for breakthrough artist of the yr, and Anne Murray, who attended the primary Junos in 1970, handing out the group of the yr award to The Seashores, an all-women indie rock band with roots in Toronto’s Seashores neighborhood.
Additionally on Sunday evening, the Juno Fan Selection award, voted on by odd Canadian music lovers, went to Karan Aujla, a Punjabi pop music star. An emotional spotlight on the Junos this yr got here when Maestro Contemporary-Wes, a.ok.a. Wesley Williams, was inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame.
The pioneering Canadian hip hop artist has had a five-decade profession, which incorporates TV appearing credit for The Listener, The Transporter and Mr. D, amongst different sequence. On Saturday evening, throughout pre-TV awards prize-giving, Calgary’s Tate McRae earned two Junos for greatest artist of the yr and greatest single of the yr for Grasping.
And Tobi additionally picked up two Junos on Saturday evening, for greatest rap single and greatest rap album of the yr, whereas Aysanabee nabbed trophies for greatest songwriter of the yr and greatest various album.
A full listing of winners is on the market on the Juno Awards web site.
