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Artists Selected for the Eighth Annual
Allan Slaight JUNO Master Class
Aysanabee
Katie Tupper
Chad Price
Anna Sofia
Taking place October 24 – 28, four emerging
artists will participate in a curated mentorship
program with music industry leaders
TORONTO
–
The
C
anadian
Academy
of
Recording
Arts
and
Sciences
(CARAS)
and
S
laight
M
usic
announced
today
the
roster
of
emerging
artists
selected
for
the
2022/2023
A
llan
Slaight
JUNO
Master
Class
program.
Anna
Sofia,
Aysannabe
and
Katie
Tupper
join
grand
prize
winner
of
the
2022
CBC
Music
Toyota
Searchlight
award,
Chad
Price,
for
the
mentorship
program,
which
is
customized
to
meet
each
of
the
artist’s
unique
needs
and
help
them
become
“JUNO
ready.”
Voted
in
by
a
Super
Jury
of
music
industry
notables,
the
four
finalists
will
take
part
in
a
workshop
running
from
October
24
to
28
in
Toronto,
which
includes
vocal
and
stage
performance
coaching,
as
well
as
sessions
with
industry
leaders.
The
artists
will
also
attend
JUNO
Week
2023
in
Edmonton,
AB
and
one
finalist
will
be
selected
to
perform
at
the
JUNO
Opening
Night
Awards
Presented
by
Music
Canada.
2022/2023 Allan Slaight JUNO Master Class artists:
Anna
Sofia
–
Toronto,
ON
Aysanabee
–
Thunder
Bay,
ON
Chad
Price
–
London,
ON
Katie
T
upper
–
Saskatoon,
SK
“It’s
moving
to
see
the
lasting
effects
of
my
father’s
impact
on
the
Canadian
music
industry,”
s
aid
G
ary
Slaight,
President
&
CEO,
Slaight
Communications.
“His
contributions
have
enabled
us
to
provide
budding
artists
like
these
ones
with
the
skills
they
need
to
succeed
in
their
careers.
We’re
thrilled
to
be
a
part
of
their
paths
to
achievement.”
“We
feel
so
energized
by
this
year’s
roster
of
artists,
who
each
bring
their
own
unique
sound
and
identity
to
the
table,”
s
aid
A
llan
Reid,
President
and
CEO,
CARAS/The
JUNO
Awards.
“We
can’t
wait
to
see
them
flourish
on
the
national
scale,
while
learning
from
some
of
the
best
in
the
business.”
The
Allan
Slaight
JUNO
Master
Class
program
is
run
in
collaboration
with
C
anada’s
Music
Incubator
(CMI)
.
Anna Sophia
For all of her multi-disciplinary talents, music is clearly a bulwark of her
talent; it’s a place where the creative crystallizes into blissfully irreverent
storytelling and melodic castigation. Sofia explains the causation of this
attitude, "The EP tells a story about a point in my career where the voices of
the industry took control over me. I was unable to share my true creative
vision, my true taste in music, and overall my true art. I built this world in
this facility as a metaphor to express the way I felt during that period of
time. I felt trapped, controlled, manipulated, and this was exactly how I
wanted to execute those feelings."
The lead track "Fuck Your Money" is a self-explanatory, vintage revelry
about a creative refusing to be bought or commercialized, and with
remarkable irony, it’s an absolute jam, worthy of label attention. "Caged
Birds Don't Sing" is a wickedly tight, autotuned, Gospel-adjacent tune that
mellows into R&B softness that makes you wanna cuddle the outro against
your cheek.
Aysanabee is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer songwriter
currently based in Toronto. He is Oji-Cree, Sucker Clan of the Sandy Lake
First Nation a remote fly-in community in the far reaches of Northwestern
Ontario.
Solemn and soaring, backed by a swirling blend of indie, soul and electronic
soundscapes, mournful saxophone and pulse-quickening finger-picking,
Aysanabee’s striking sound is equal parts hypnotic and melodic which has
been compared to Bon Iver, Matt Corby, Don Ross, Kim Churchill, Kings of
Leon and Sam Smith.
“Watin actually started out as a series of conversations between myself and
my grandfather,” says Aysanabee. “We spent the first year of the pandemic
talking about things we’ve never spoke about, his life on the trapline on
Sandy Lake First Nation, falling in love, his life in residential school and then
leaving everything behind..we never spoke of it until now.
Aysanabee
Chad Price
Emerging Canadian artist and 2022 Toyota Searchlight winner’s third
full-length effort, a disc that documents his recent musical and
emotional evolution.
“I’m incredibly proud of this album and proud of myself for reaching
emotional and creative depths that I was too afraid to reach for in the
past,” Price says. “This one feels like an actual representation of who I
really am and all the things that swirl around in my head that I’m
usually apprehensive to talk about as an introvert. For me, this is how
I’ve always wanted to present myself to the world.” Not that he knew
that when he started the album.
“I had no idea what the album was going to be about or what themes it
would speak on going into the making of it; I simply needed to create.
Once I was about halfway through the album, it became clear that the
album was allowing me to process some pain/trauma. I was working
through some demons… and it all ended up coming out on this album. It
served as my own form of therapy and was a true act of introspection.
Katie Tupper
Katie Tupper, a 23-year old neo-soul musician, embodies that spirit and
is determined to show there’s an entire world of boundary-pushing,
genre-defying artists at work within the often overlooked region.
Central to that mission is her new EP Towards the End -- a sultry,
glittering debut that showcases Tupper’s mastery as a musician, writer
and producer. With this new music, Tupper wants to connect listeners
from across genres and generations. “I want everyone to be able to find
a part of my music to connect to. The lyrics that I’m finding the easiest
to write at the moment are very coming of age which I think a younger
crowd gravitates to. That being said, the subjects I write about can
appeal to all generations.” She says.
Towards the End is an ode to love, identity and the inextricable ways
the two entwine. “It’s about navigating young love. About how we
adapt and change with new people,” she says.
Aysanabee
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