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• Land AcknowledgmentThe City of Hamilton is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We further acknowledge that this land is covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, the City of Hamilton is home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island (North America) and we recognize that we must do more to learn about the rich history of this land so that we can better understand our roles as residents, neighbours, partners and caretakers.
• Page 3Music Canada, on behalf of our members Sony Music Entertainment Canada, Universal Music Canada and Warner Music Canada, is thrilled to present the 2026 JUNO Awards Gala. On nights like tonight, Parliament Hill seems so far away - but what happens there impacts the future of Canadian music. That's why at Music Canada, we spend all of our time thinking about and working on music's biggest policy challenges and opportunities.
• Co-Hosts | CoanimatricesDamhnait Doyle Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Damhnait Doyle is a singer, songwriter, performer and broadcaster. Spanning a music career of more than two decades, she has released eight full-length recordings as both a solo artist and a member of award-winning groups Shaye and The Heartbroken. She has toured Canada extensively, opening for legends like Willie Nelson and Steve Earle. For the past several years she has been the host of Mornings on CBC Music, where she relishes the opportunity to amplify incredible Canadian musicians.
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• Nelly FurtadoTimeless. Pop. Fusion. These three words describe Nelly Furtado's nearly three-decade career and lasting impact on the global music industry. After striking gold from her very first album, Whoa Nelly, with the GRAMMY- winning hit, "I'm Like A Bird", the Victoria-born singer/ songwriter shot to fame on the global stage at the young age of 22. Prior to this success, Furtado was a motivated artist on the streets of Toronto, about to break through, performing and writing songs whenever possible. Buoyed by Canada's supportive creative industry, including organizations like VideoFACT and Honey Jam, Furtado eventually signed to DreamWorks Records (now owned by Universal Music Group) and the rest, as they say, is (music) history. Furtado has gone on to sell out arenas around the world with over 20 billion streams, 5 million albums sold worldwide and numerous #1 hit singles. Furtado's icon status has been recognized many times over through several awards, including ten JUNO Awards, one GRAMMY (out of seven nominations), one Latin GRAMMY, three MuchMusic Video Awards, one BRIT award, one Billboard Music Award, one MTV Europe Music Award and one World Music Award. A regular fixture on global charts, Furtado has also landed three #1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, half of which were within the top ten, and has charted #1 on the US Latin Billboard chart.
• Page 8couronnées de succès, elle s'est également produite ces dernières années sur certaines des plus grandes scènes de festivals aux États-Unis, au Royaume-Uni, au Mexique et en Europe, et a fait des apparitions surprises à Coachella et Lollapalooza. Après avoir pris une pause pour se consacrer à sa famille, Nelly Furtado a fait son grand retour en 2024 avec la sortie de son nouvel album studio, 7, sous sa propre maison de disques indépendante, Nelstar Entertainment. Dans plusieurs entrevues, Nelly Furtado décrit le processus de création de ce nouvel album, qui s'est étalé sur quatre ans, comme similaire à celui de son premier opus, mais enrichi d'une sagesse nouvelle, d'un amour de soi et de cette énergie spontanée qui la caractérise.
• Page 9CONGRATS TO THE 2026 NOMINEES! See the full list: JUNOAWARDS.CA
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• Joni MitchellThere are legendary singer-songwriters, and then there's Joni Mitchell, in a league entirely her own. After leaving Saskatoon in the late 1960s for Toronto and the U.S., she became a defining voice of the folk revival before expanding boldly into jazz, rock, and pop. Often called "your favourite singer's favourite singer," Mitchell has inspired artists from Taylor Swift and Sara Bareilles to Björk, as well as contemporaries like Bob Dylan, Prince, and Jimi Hendrix. Her intimate songwriting and striking, genre-bending soundscapes affectionately dubbed "Joni's weird chords" - poetically capture the human experience. Her 1971 album Blue is frequently cited among the greatest albums of all time. Mitchell has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest songwriters, singers, and guitarists ever. She is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1997), a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1981) and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (2007), a Polar Music Prize laureate (1996), and a recipient of both the Kennedy Center Honors (2021) and the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize (2023). Despite her well- known disillusionment with the industry, she has won 11 GRAMMY Awards, four JUNO Awards, the Les Paul Award, and was named MusiCares Person of the Year in 2022.
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• Billy TalentIf you love Canadian rock, then you love Billy Talent. The band comprised of Benjamin Kowalewicz, lan D'Sa, Jonathan Gallant, Aaron Solowoniuk, and Jordan Hastings - has had a long and illustrious career spanning over three decades, with 25 JUNO Award nominations and seven wins. Known for their cinematic storytelling, Billy Talent is also the most awarded band in MuchMusic Video Awards history, with 10 awards. In Canada, they've sold almost 1 million albums and have tripled that number in international sales. In particular, their second and third albums, Billy Talent and Billy Talent II, have been certified by the Canadian Recording Industry Association as triple platinum and double platinum, respectively. They are undoubtedly one of Canada's most successful homegrown bands in the last quarter- century. After the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many still panicked and rightfully so, but this band transformed fear into hope through song and action. The 2026 recipient of the Humanitarian Award is Billy Talent in recognition of the work they've done to contribute to and raise awareness for charities in Canada and beyond.
• Page 14a également été reversée à la banque alimentaire de chaque ville. Tout cela a été rendu possible grâce au lancement du Billy Talent Charitable Trust, conçu pour aider le groupe et ses admirateurs à soutenir diverses organisations caritatives. À ce jour, ils ont soutenu de nombreuses causes, notamment le #TorontoStrong Fund, MusiCounts, War Child, Jeunesse J'écoute et l'initiative Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer de la Banque Scotia. L'engagement humanitaire de Billy Talent remonte à une cause qui leur tient particulièrement à cœur : la sclérose en plaques. Après l'annonce du diagnostic de la maladie du batteur Aaron Solowoniuk en 1998, ils ont organisé leur premier concert de bienfaisance en 2006 et en ont organisé de nombreux autres depuis. En 2018, le groupe a récolté plus de 20 000 dollars pour la Société canadienne de la sclérose en plaques en vendant des plaques de disque d'or en édition limitée, portant la signature de chaque membre.
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• Daniel CaesarThere are contemporary R&B stars, and then there's Daniel Caesar, a singular voice whose music has quietly and powerfully reshaped the global sound of modern soul. Since emerging as a defining artist of his generation, Caesar has built an international career marked by emotional honesty, compositional sophistication, and a profound cultural connection with audiences around the world. His breakthrough album Freudian signalled the arrival of a major talent. The record achieved Double Platinum certification in Canada and Platinum in the United States, earning widespread critical acclaim and establishing Caesar as one of Canada's most compelling contemporary exports. He reached new global heights with "Peaches," his chart-topping collaboration with Justin Bieber, which debuted at No. 1 internationally and became one of the most streamed songs of its year. With each release, Caesar has expanded both his artistic range and his global footprint, elevating Canadian music on the world stage.
• Page 18Albums, il s'impose comme son opus le mieux classé et son premier album à figurer dans le Top 10 aux États- Unis. Au cœur de cet enregistrement, on trouve les thèmes de la réconciliation et de la communication, en particulier avec son père, qui a donné son nom à l'album. À la fois profondément contemplatif et d'une composition époustouflante, Son Of Spergy voit Daniel Caesar explorer la maturité, la responsabilité et la signification de devenir un homme. Son œuvre trouve un écho parce qu'elle est à la fois profondément personnelle et universellement accessible, ancrée dans la foi, la famille et l'introspection. Enregistré en Jamaïque et dans l'Ouest américain, l'album allie une intimité émotionnelle à une ambition sonore grandiose. La vedette mondiale multiplatine Daniel Caesar se verra décerner le Prix du rayonnement international en reconnaissance de son extraordinaire impact mondial en tant que l'un des artistes contemporains les plus influents du Canada. Il montera également sur la scène des Prix JUNO pour une prestation spéciale, célébrant une carrière qui continue de mettre en valeur la musique canadienne à travers le monde.
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• Alexander MairAlexander Mair's influence on the Canadian music industry is both foundational and enduring. A visionary executive, tireless advocate, and architect of the modern Canadian music ecosystem, Mair played a central role in shaping the infrastructure that allowed Canadian artists not only to thrive at home, but to compete on the world stage. After early success as a record company executive in his early twenties, Mair became the business manager for Gordon Lightfoot, overseeing the artist's affairs during the most defining years of his career. From 1968 through the mid-1970s, Mair managed Lightfoot's international rise, producing his first coast-to-coast Canadian tour and stewarding an era that included global hits such as "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Earlier, he had promoted all of Lightfoot's early recordings, each achieving platinum- plus status in Canada, while also shepherding landmark Canadian successes including The Irish Rovers' The Unicorn and Motherlode's U.S. Top-Five hit "When I Die."
• Page 22et multi-platine au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Japon et en Europe. La maison de disques a joué un rôle déterminant dans la carrière d'artistes tels que Triumph, Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes, Patsy Gallant, Hagood Hardy, Downchild Blues Band, Haywire, The Nylons et The Irish Rovers, dont beaucoup continuent d'influencer la musique canadienne aujourd'hui. Anticipant les bouleversements technologiques auxquels l'industrie allait être confrontée, Alexander Mair a vendu Attic en 2000, préservant ainsi l'héritage de l'entreprise tout en la positionnant pour une nouvelle ère. Au-delà de ses réalisations commerciales, Alexander Mair a été l'un des défenseurs les plus dévoués et les plus influents de sa génération au sein de l'industrie. Il a joué un rôle central dans l'avancement de la réglementation sur le contenu canadien, en participant à des audiences clés en 1969 et en contribuant à promouvoir ce qui est devenu connu sous le nom de CanCon. Pendant plus de quatre décennies, il a occupé des postes de direction dans presque toutes les grandes institutions musicales canadiennes, notamment la CAPAC, la SOCAN, FACTOR, l'Association canadienne de la musique indépendante, l'Association canadienne des éditeurs de musique et l'Agence canadienne de reproduction des droits musicaux. Il a également passé des décennies en tant que gouverneur et responsable de la programmation au Massey Hall et au Roy Thomson Hall.
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• Sandy PandyaThroughout Sandy Pandya's trailblazing journey in the music industry, she has championed artists at every turn, working to create opportunities where none existed before, all in service of a more equitable industry. After getting her start as a music event host in her hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan, Pandya used this experience to land several roles at top labels and agencies, including Attic Records, BMG Records and Celebrity Talent International, before stepping out on her own in several successful ventures, most notably Pandyamonium Management and ArtHaus. Since 1996, Pandyamonium Management has been a pivotal force in the artist management industry, shaping the success of numerous Canadian artists, including Serena Ryder and Jully Black. But in 2019, Pandya launched her most full- service offering yet - ArtHaus. ArtHaus was born out of a need for true community and collaboration. In addition to being a live-and-work space for artists that has hosted the likes of iskwē, Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench, Tom Wilson, Cadence Weapon and DANNY PHNTM, ArtHaus is also an independent record label, music publisher, management company and educational nonprofit. Through the ArtHaus Community nonprofit, artists have access to education programs in partnership with organizations like ADVANCE, Canada's Black Music Business Collective, Live Nation, Canada's Walk of Fame, RBC, and Canada's Music Incubator. ArtHaus also offers mentorship programs and previously teamed up with Propeller Coffee Co. to support Unison Benevolent Fund, a non-profit that provides emergency relief and counselling services to musicians.
• Page 26canadiens n'est pas passé inaperçu. Elle a remporté le prix de l'industrie Brian Chater de la CIMA en 2018, le prix du Tableau d'honneur MMF en 2019, trois prix de la Canadian Music Week (2024) et, en 2024, elle a été nommée parmi les premières lauréates du prix Billboard Women in Music. Au-delà d'ArtHaus, elle siège au conseil d'administration de FACTOR et de la CIMA et soutient fréquemment des initiatives créatives locales dans tout le pays.
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• Vinny CinquemaniWhen it comes to Canada's live music industry, few have seen and done as much as Vinny Cinquemani has. A former musician himself, Cinquemani recognized the pivotal role live performance and touring play in achieving success in domestic and international markets. Thus, Cinquemani transitioned into the booking industry in the 1970s, following a move to Toronto from New York in the 1970s. This was a pivotal time in the Canadian live music scene; Canadian artists were still discovering their place in the global industry as homegrown talent began to explode onto the world's stage. Cinquemani's masterful negotiation skills, business acumen and fierce dedication to his artists landed him roles at various influential booking firms, including Concept 376, Music Shoppe International, Platinum Artists, the Agency (as President) and S.L. Feldman & Associates (SLFA) - first as VP of Artist Relations then later President after taking the company to new heights. In 2010, he stepped down to the role of Senior VP, later transitioning to his current role as Co-President of Paquin Artists Agency (PAA) in 2022. Since then, PAA has become the largest booking agency in Canada, following a recent merger with APA Canada. Cinquemani's talents and significant impact on the Canadian music scene have been widely recognized. He has been named Canadian Booking Agent of the Year a whopping 10 times at the Canadian Music Industry Awards, setting a record for most wins. Twice in a row, he was voted the #1 Agency/Agent in Billboard's Top 100 Power Players in Canada in 2024 and 2025 and also voted one of Billboard's top Global Power Players in 2025. Cinquemani has also shared his talents with other sectors of the music industry. He served eight years as a Talent Coordinator for CARAS and six years on the CARAS Board of Directors. His contributions to artist development and live music were recognized with COCA's prestigious Founders Award.
• Page 30en 2025. Vinny Cinquemani a également mis ses talents au service d'autres secteurs de l'industrie musicale. Il a occupé pendant huit ans le poste de coordinateur des talents pour la CARAS et a siégé pendant six ans au conseil d'administration de la CARAS. Ses contributions au développement des artistes et à la musique en direct ont été récompensées par le prestigieux prix des fondateurs de la COCA. Parmi sa liste de clients légendaires et de longue date, on retrouve de nombreux visages familiers, notamment Bryan Adams, Michael Bublé, Jann Arden, Simple Plan, Johnny Reid, Amanda Marshall, The Offspring, Tom Cochrane, David Foster et Kim Mitchell, entre autres. Il a également travaillé comme agent pendant 40 ans avec Rush, Triumph, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, Sarah McLachlan, The Parachute Club et de nombreux autres artistes. Le Prix Walt Grealis pour réalisations hors du commun est décerné à Vinny Cinquemani en reconnaissance de son influence sur l'industrie canadienne de la musique en direct en tant qu'agent artistique, dirigeant et professionnel accompli du monde de la musique.
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• Page 3518:01 SUR SCÈNE : MANITOU MKWA SINGERS 18:07 DAMHNAIT DOYLE & ODARIO WILLIAMS 18:13 AUTEUR-COMPOSITEUR DE L'ANNÉE PRÉSENTÉ PAR LA SOCAN 18:15 ENREGISTREMENT DANCE DE L'ANNÉE 18:17 ALBUM MUSIQUE GLOBALE DE L'ANNÉE
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• 2026 JUNO Awards Judges Jurés des Prix JUNO 2026A. Harmony Aaron Arya Adrian Harjo Akeem Herbert
• Kathleen Flynn Kathleen Morrison Katie BullKatie Tymochenko Kay Malinka Kayla Schwartz Keith Mustachi Kelly Peterson Kelly Shannon
• 2026 Music Advisory CommitteesComités consultatifs de la musique 2026 Nominating and Voting Chair: Warren Stewart Co-Chair: Chris Moncada Helen Britton Miro Oballa
• Kevin Amougou Hemen Tor-AgbidyeTraditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year & Contemporary R&B Recording of the Year Chair: Camila Bellido Co-Chair: Shantel Noel Akeel Henry Yvette Angela Kereese Plummer
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