The Juno Award

Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

s of 1995, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 26 March 1995 in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

 at a ceremony in the Copps Coliseum

Copps Coliseum

Copps Coliseum is a sports and entertainment arena, on the corner of Bay Street North and York Boulevard, in Hamilton, Ontario. Depending on event, the Copps Coliseum has a capacity of up to 19,000.It is named after the former Hamilton mayor, Victor K...

. Mary Walsh, Rick Mercer

Rick Mercer

Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger.Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one man show Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in...

 and other regulars of the television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...

were the hosts for the ceremonies which were broadcast on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

.

Nominees were announced on 1 February 1995. Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark, OC , is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful single is "O Siem", which reached #1 on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts in 1995...

 and Jann Arden

Jann Arden

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...

 were among the prominent nominees this year.

Almost 10 000 people were in the Coliseum for the event - over 6500 public tickets were sold, the remainder were from the music business.

Leonard Rambeau, the long-time manager of Anne Murray

Anne Murray

Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....

, received a special lifetime achievement award. Rambeau died later that year of cancer.

Entertainer of the Year

Juno Award for Entertainer of the Year

This is a list of the Canadian musical artists named Entertainer of the Year at the Juno Awards in those years in which this award or its nearest equivalent was awarded.-Canadian Entertainer of the Year :*1989 - Glass Tiger...

This award was chosen by a national poll rather than by Juno organisers CARAS

Caras

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.

Winner: The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...

Other Nominees:

• Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  
• Crash Test Dummies
  Crash Test Dummies
  The Crash Test Dummies is a Canadian folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, widely known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm".The band is most identifiable through Brad Roberts and his distinctive bass-baritone voice...
  
  
• Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
  
  
• Neil Young
  Neil Young
  Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
  
  

Female Vocalist of the Year

Juno Award for Artist of the Year

The Juno Award for Artist of the Year has been awarded since 2002 as recognition each year for the best artist/musician in Canada. The category was originally divided by sex...

Winner: Jann Arden

Jann Arden

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...

Other Nominees:

• Sass Jordan
  Sass Jordan
  Sarah "Sass" Jordan is a Canadian, Juno Award winning, rock singer/songwriter who grew up in Montreal.- Biography :...
  
  
• Julie Masse
  Julie Masse
  Julie Masse is a Canadian pop singer.-Biography:Masse released her self-titled debut album in 1990, a French language album that made her a star in Quebec and France, with the singles "C'est Zéro", "Billy", "Sans t'oublier" and "Prends bien garde"...
  
  
• Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...
  
  
• Michelle Wright
  Michelle Wright
  Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice...
  
  

Male Vocalist of the Year

Juno Award for Artist of the Year

The Juno Award for Artist of the Year has been awarded since 2002 as recognition each year for the best artist/musician in Canada. The category was originally divided by sex...

Winner: Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

Other Nominees:

• Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
  
  
• Colin James
  Colin James
  Colin James is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who plays in the blues, rock, and neo-swing genres. He grew up as a Quaker.-Early years:...
  
  
• John McDermott
  John McDermott (singer)
  John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song "Danny Boy". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Ontario, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St...
  
  
• Roch Voisine
  Roch Voisine
  Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host...
  
  

Best New Solo Artist

Juno Award for New Artist of the Year

The Juno Award for New Artist of the Year has been awarded since 1974 as recognition each year for the best new artist/musician in Canada. The category was originally divided by separate awards for men and women...

Winner: Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark, OC , is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful single is "O Siem", which reached #1 on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts in 1995...

Other Nominees:

• Sara Craig
  Sara Craig
  Sara Craig is a Canadian singer-songwriter.Craig launched her career in 1987 by placing a classified ad in Toronto's NOW looking for musicians to work with. She released her debut EP in 1991, and quickly became popular in Canadian alternative and indie circles. She followed up with her major label...
  
  
• David Gogo
  David Gogo
  David Gogo , is a Canadian blues guitarist who is currently signed to the Cordova Bay Records label.David Gogo is the cousin of Trooper keyboardist Paul Gogo.-History:...
  
  
• Éric Lapointe
  Éric Lapointe (singer)
  Éric Lapointe is one of Québec's most popular francophone lead rock singers. His signature sound is characterized by very strong emotional lyrics, a rich, deep gravelly voice and the virtuoso guitar work by Stéphane Dufour...
  
  
• Andrew Matheson

Group of the Year

Juno Award for Group of the Year

The Juno Award for best Group of the Year has been awarded since 1970, as recognition each year for the best group or band in Canada. It has also been known as Best Group .-Best Group :*1970 - The Guess Who...

Winner: The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...

Other Nominees:

• Barenaked Ladies
  Barenaked Ladies
  Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
  
  
• Crash Test Dummies
  Crash Test Dummies
  The Crash Test Dummies is a Canadian folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, widely known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm".The band is most identifiable through Brad Roberts and his distinctive bass-baritone voice...
  
  
• Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.-Early years:The band began...
  
  
• The Watchmen
  The Watchmen
  The Watchmen is a Canadian rock band. They were one of the most commercially successful Canadian alternative rock groups of the mid to late 1990s. During their peak years the band had three gold records and one platinum record...
  
  

Best New Group

Juno Award for New Group of the Year

The Juno Award for the New Group of the Year has been awarded since 1974, as recognition each year for the best new group or band in Canada. The award was originally known as Most Promising Group of the Year, and from 1994–2002 it was known as Best New Group.-Most Promising Group of the Year...

Winner: Moist

Other Nominees:

• Big Sugar
  Big Sugar
  Big Sugar is a Canadian blues-rock band, they were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010. The band has sold more than half a million albums in Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Farmer's Daughter
  Farmer's Daughter (band)
  Farmer's Daughter is a Canadian country music group. Farmer's Daughter recorded three studio albums and charted sixteen singles on the Canadian country music charts. Their highest charting single was the Number One song "Cornfields or Cadillacs."-Career:...
  
  
• The Gandharvas
  The Gandharvas
  The Gandharvas were a Canadian rock band from London, Ontario, who were active in the 1990s.-History:The band formed in 1989 as The Droogs , and released a self-titled EP in 1991...
  
  
• Wild Strawberries
  Wild Strawberries (band)
  Wild Strawberries is a Canadian pop band made up of married couple Roberta Carter-Harrison and Ken Harrison, who are also, respectively, a physiotherapist and a doctor by trade...
  
  

Songwriter of the Year

Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year

The Juno Award for "Songwriter of the Year" has been awarded since 1971, as recognition each year for the best songwriter in Canada. It was also known as the Juno Award for "Composer of the Year" from 1975 to 1990.-Best Songwriter :...

Winner: Jann Arden

Jann Arden

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...

Other Nominees:

• Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
  
  
• Greg Keelor
  Greg Keelor
  Greg Keelor is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the band Blue Rodeo, where he shares song writing and vocal duties with Jim Cuddy. Keelor has also released three solo albums and appeared as a guest musician on albums by Crash Vegas and Melissa McClelland...
  
   and Jim Cuddy
  Jim Cuddy
  Jim Cuddy is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. He has also recorded three solo albums with the Jim Cuddy Band, which features musicians Bazil Donovan, Colin Cripps, Joel Anderson, Anne Lindsay and Gavin Brown...
  
  
• Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
  
  
• Neil Young
  Neil Young
  Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
  
  

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Country Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1970, as recognition each year for the best country music artist in Canada...

Winner: Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice...

Other Nominees:

• Lisa Brokop
  Lisa brokop
  Lisa Brokop is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter and actress. Active since 1990 in the country music field, she has released a total of six studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the country music charts in her native Canada...
  
  
• Cindy Church
  Cindy Church
  Cindy Church is a Canadian country and folk artist. Church released three studio albums on Stony Plain Records and was nominated for Best Country Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards in 1995 and 1996. She is also a member of the award winning group Quartette....
  
  
• Patricia Conroy
  Patricia Conroy
  Patricia Conroy is a Canadian country music singer. In her career, she has released five studio albums and a one compilation album. Several of her singles have charted on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart, most notably her number one hits "Somebody's Leavin'" and "What Else Can I Do" from 1994...
  
  
• Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
  

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Country Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1970, as recognition each year for the best country music artist in Canada...

Winner: Charlie Major

Charlie Major

Charlie Major is a Canadian country music artist. He has recorded six studio albums and released more than twenty singles....

Other Nominees:

• Joel Feeney
  Joel Feeney
  Joel Feeney is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter and record producer. In his performing career, he is most notable for his 1995 Number 1 hit "What Kind of Man". He is also notable for co-writing LeAnn Rimes' 2005 hit "Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense", which reached Number 1 in Canada...
  
  
• George Fox
  George Fox (musician)
  George Fox is a country/western music singer/songwriter raised in Cochrane, Alberta, the son of cattle ranchers Bert and Gert Fox.His debut single “Angelina” reached #8 on Canadian country music charts...
  
  
• Terry Kelly
  Terry Kelly (singer)
  Terry Kelly, CM is a Canadian country/folk music artist, athlete and professional speaker. Kelly has released six studio albums and charted eleven singles on the RPM Canadian country singles chart. In addition to award nominations from the Juno Awards and the Canadian Country Music Association,...
  
  
• Jim Witter
  Jim Witter
  Jim Witter, born November 2, 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an award winning country music and Christian music singer/songwriter. Ten of Witter's songs reached the top 10 on Canadian country radio.-Biography:...
  
  

Country Group or Duo of the Year

Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Country Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1970, as recognition each year for the best country music artist in Canada...

Winner: Prairie Oyster

Prairie Oyster

Prairie Oyster is an award-winning Canadian country music group from Ontario. They were named Country Group or Duo of the year six times by both the Canadian Country Music Association and the Juno Awards. The band also won the Bud Country Fans' Choice Award from the CCMA in 1994...

Other Nominees:

• Coda the West
• Farmer's Daughter
  Farmer's Daughter (band)
  Farmer's Daughter is a Canadian country music group. Farmer's Daughter recorded three studio albums and charted sixteen singles on the Canadian country music charts. Their highest charting single was the Number One song "Cornfields or Cadillacs."-Career:...
  
  
• Prescott-Brown
  Prescott-Brown
  Prescott-Brown was a Canadian country music trio composed of Tracey Brown, her brother Barry and her husband Randall Prescott. Tracey is a former member of Canada's most awarded country band, Family Brown, Barry is an award winning songwriter, and Randall is one of Canada's most awarded producers...
  
  
• Quartette
  Quartette (band)
  Quartette is a Canadian country-folk group featuring Cindy Church, Caitlin Hanford, Gwen Swick and Sylvia Tyson. Each of the four members also records as a solo artist in addition to their work as a group.-Biography:...
  
  

Instrumental Artist of the Year

Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Instrumental Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1976, as recognition each year for the best instrumental album in Canada. The award was originally called the "Instrumental Artist of the Year"....

Winner: André Gagnon

André Gagnon

André Gagnon, OC is a Canadian musician and composer. He shifted from a classical musical style to an adult contemporary style in the mid-1970s with albums such as Neiges....

Other Nominees:

• Hennie Bekker
  Hennie Bekker
  Hennie Bekker is a Juno nominated Zambian born composer, arranger, producer and keyboardist based in Toronto, Canada. His career has run the spectrum from jazz fusion and film scoring to New Age and techno...
  
  
• Wayne Chaulk
• Marie-Andree Ostiguy
• Quartetto Gelato
  Quartetto Gelato
  Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Liza McLellan, Alexander Sevastian and Colin Maier, and based in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  

Producer of the Year

Winner: Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

, "Skin Walker" and "It Is a Good Day to Die" by Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

Other Nominees:

• Arnold Lanni
  Arnold Lanni
  Arnold David Lanni is a Canadian record producer, and former member of both Frozen Ghost and Sheriff. He wrote Sheriff's most successful song, "When I'm With You."-History:...
  
  , "Birdman
  The Birdman
  "The Birdman" is Our Lady Peace's first single off their debut album Naveed. Because of the Naveed cover, Saul Fox is best known for being "The Birdman"...
  
  " and "Naveed
  Naveed (song)
  Naveed is a single from Our Lady Peace's debut album of the same name, Naveed. It was released April 17, 1995 in the United States and in January 1996 in the United Kingdom as the fifth and final single from the album. The song performed well on the charts, and became a smash hit in Canada,...
  
  " by Our Lady Peace
  Our Lady Peace
  Our Lady Peace is a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band additionally consists of Jeremy Taggart on percussion, Duncan Coutts on bass, and Steve Mazur as lead guitarist...
  
  
• David Foster
  David Foster
  David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
  
  , "Power of My Love" and "Colour of My Love" by Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  , "I Swear" and "All-4-One" by All-4-One
  All-4-One
  All-4-One is a male R&B/pop group best known for their cover hit single "I Swear" from their self-titled 1994 debut album. The group comprises Jamie Jones, Delious Kennedy, Alfred Nevarez, and Tony Borowiak, all from the Antelope Valley and Mojave, California areas, but are based in the Los Angeles...
  
  
• Mark Howard
  Mark Howard (producer)
  Mark Howard is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with many artistsincluding Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Marianne Faithful, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M...
  
   and The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...
  
  , "Grace, Too
  Grace, Too
  "Grace, Too" is the first single by The Tragically Hip from the band's fourth studio album, Day for Night. The song peaked at #11 on the RPM Canadian Singles chart.-Live performances:...
  
  ", "Day for Night
  Day for night
  Day for night, also known as nuit américaine , is the name for cinematographic techniques used to simulate a night scene; such as using tungsten-balanced rather than daylight-balanced film stock or with special blue filters and also under-exposing the shot to create the illusion of darkness or...
  
  ", "Nautical Disaster
  Nautical Disaster
  "Nautical Disaster" is the third single by The Tragically Hip from the band's 1994 album, Day for Night. The song peaked at #26 on the Canadian RPM Singles chart. The song was performed by the band on their 1995 appearance of Saturday Night Live, along with the band's previous single Grace, Too....
  
  " by The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...
  
  
• Pierre Marchand
  Pierre Marchand
  Pierre Marchand is a Canadian songwriter, musician and record producer.Pierre Marchand is known for his ongoing collaboration with Sarah McLachlan, having produced all of her albums since Solace...
  
  , "Possession", "Stumbling Towards Ecstasy", "Good Enough" by Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
  
  

Recording Engineer of the Year

Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year

The Juno Award for "Recording Engineer of the Year" has been awarded since 1976, as recognition each year for the best recording engineer in Canada.- Recording Engineer of the Year :* 1976 - Michel Ethier, Dompierre by François Dompierre...

Winner: Lenny DeRose

Lenny DeRose

Lenny DeRose is a veteran studio engineer and music producer who has been credited on several recordings dating back to the early 1980s.As an engineer, he has been credited for his work on several motion picture soundtracks, including Naked in New York, 9½ Weeks, among others...

, "Lay My Body Down" and "Charms" by The Philosopher Kings

The Philosopher Kings

The Philosopher Kings are a Canadian rhythm and blues band who were most commercially successful in the late 1990s. The name of the band is derived from Plato's Republic, in which he outlines the design of an idealistic government, ruled by philosopher-kings...

Other Nominees:

• Mike Fraser
  Mike Fraser
  Mike Fraser is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer. Mike is best known for his work with AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith and Joe Satriani...
  
  , "Push Comes to Shove" by Jackyl
  Jackyl
  Jackyl is an American rock band formed in 1990. Their sound has been described as hard rock, heavy metal and Southern metal.The band is probably best-known for its song "The Lumberjack", which features a chainsaw solo by lead singer Jesse James Dupree. On the recording, Dupree alternately revs the...
  
   and "Dueces Are Wild" by Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  
• Michael Phillip Wojewoda
  Michael Phillip Wojewoda
  -External links:*...
  
  , Music from the Motion Picture Whale Music
  Music from the Motion Picture Whale Music
  Music from The Motion Picture Whale Music is a 1994 album by Rheostatics. It is the soundtrack to the film version of Paul Quarrington's novel Whale Music, and should not be confused with the band's 1992 album Whale Music....
  
  by Rheostatics
  Rheostatics
  Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.Although they had only one Top 40 hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been...
  
  
• Marc Ramaer, "Hush Sweet Lover" by k.d. lang
  K.D. Lang
  Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
  
   and "Jane" by Barenaked Ladies
  Barenaked Ladies
  Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
  
  
• Jeff Wolpert, "The Bonny Swans" and "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...
  
  

Album of the Year

Juno Award for Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1975, as recognition each year for the best album in Canada. It was also known as Best Album , and Best Selling Album .-Best Album :...

Winner: The Colour of My Love

The Colour of My Love

The Colour of My Love is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 9, 1993. It is her third English-language album and 18th overall...

, Celine Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

Other Nominees:

• Day for Night
  Day for Night (Tragically Hip album)
  Day for Night is the fourth full-length album by the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in September 1994. The album is known for having a lighter and more acoustic sound compared to the band's first three albums...
  
  , The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...
  
  
• Five Days in July
  Five Days in July
  Five Days in July is a 1993 album by Blue Rodeo. It was keyboardist James Gray's first album with the band. The band's most commercially successful album, it has been certified six times platinum as of 2008....
  
  , Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
  Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
  -Charts:-Release history:-Personnel:*Sarah McLachlan: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano*Bill Dillon: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Guitorgan, Bass, Piano...
  
  , Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
  
  
• North Country
  North Country (album)
  North Country is the third studio album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. It was released by EMI on August 24, 1993. The album peaked at number 1 on the RPM Country Albums chart. A revised version was released in the United States in 1994...
  
  , The Rankin Family
  The Rankin Family
  The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards.- Career...
  
  

Best Children's Album

Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Children's Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1979, as recognition each year for the best children's album in Canada.-Best Children's Album :*1979 - Anne Murray, There's a Hippo in My Tub...

Winner: Bananaphone

Bananaphone

Bananawhoa is a popular children's album released by Raffi in 1994. The title track's lyrics describes the bananaphone. The song uses many puns such as "It's a phone with appeal!" and nonce words like "bananular" and "interactive-odular" as Raffi extols the virtues of his unique telephone. The...

, Raffi

Raffi (musician)

Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...

Other Nominees:

• Eric's World Record, Eric Nagler
  Eric Nagler
  Eric Nagler is an American-born musician and television personality known primarily for his work on Canadian children's television series such as The Elephant Show.- Biography :...
  
  
• J'ai tant danse, Carmen Campagne
  Carmen Campagne
  Carmen Campagne is a very influent Canadian singer and children's entertainer. A Fransaskois from Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, she was a member of the folk music band Folle Avoine in the 1970s. Her brother Paul and sisters Suzanne, Michelle and Annette, her bandmates in Folle Avoine, have also...
  
  
• Jacob Two Two and the Dinosaur, Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...
  
  
• What a day!, Fred Penner
  Fred Penner
  Frederick Ralph Cornelius Penner, is a Canadian children's entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. His television show, Fred Penner's Place, aired on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997. It was co-produced by Nickelodeon in 1989 and 1990.Penner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  

Best Classical Album (Solo or Chamber Ensemble)

Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year - Solo or Chamber Ensemble

The Juno Award for "Classical Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best classical music album in Canada.-Best Classical Album of the Year :*1977 - Anton Kuerti, Beethoven - Vols...

Winner: Erica Goodman Plays Canadian Harp Music, Erica Goodman

Other Nominees:

• Bibor: Instrumental Works, Tafelmusik
  Tafelmusik
  The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is a Canadian baroque orchestra specializing in early music. They often perform with choir and play on period instruments....
  
  , musical director Jeanne Lamon
  Jeanne Lamon
  Jeanne Lamon , violinist and conductor, born in New York, was raised in New York state, and began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied violin at the Westchester Conservatory of Music with Editha Braham...
  
  
• Gabrielli for Brass, The Canadian Brass
• The Joy of Piano, Valerie Tryon
  Valerie Tryon
  Valerie Tryon is a British-born classical pianist. Since 1971 she has resided in Canada, but continues to pursue an international performing and recording career, and spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Among her specialisms is the music of Franz Liszt, of which she has made a number...
  
  
• Quartetto Gelato, Quartetto Gelato
  Quartetto Gelato
  Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Liza McLellan, Alexander Sevastian and Colin Maier, and based in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  

Best Classical Album (Large Ensemble)

Winner: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6, Tafelmusik

Tafelmusik

The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is a Canadian baroque orchestra specializing in early music. They often perform with choir and play on period instruments....

, director Jeanne Lamon

Jeanne Lamon

Jeanne Lamon , violinist and conductor, born in New York, was raised in New York state, and began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied violin at the Westchester Conservatory of Music with Editha Braham...

Other Nominees:

• Ibert: Escales, Flute Concerto, flute Timothy Hutchins
  Timothy Hutchins
  Timothy Hutchins is a Canadian classical flute player.Principal flute of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 1978, Timothy Hutchins has received international critical acclaim for his work as a concerto soloist, as a duo recitalist with his wife, pianist Janet Creaser Hutchins, and as a chamber...
  
  , Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
  Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...
  
  , conductor Charles Dutoit
  Charles Dutoit
  Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
  
  
• Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 and 15, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
  Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...
  
  , conductor Charles Dutoit
  Charles Dutoit
  Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
  
  
• Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete, Sinfonietta de Montréal, conductor Charles Dutoit
  Charles Dutoit
  Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
  
  
• The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 7 - Henselt and Alkan, piano Marc-André Hamelin
  Marc-André Hamelin
  Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...
  
  , BBC Scottish Symphony, conductor Martyn Brabbins
  Martyn Brabbins
  Martyn Brabbins is a British conductor. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London University, and later was a conducting student of Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory....
  
  

Best Classical Album (Vocal or Choral Performance)

Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year - Vocal or Choral Performance

The Juno Award for "Classical Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best vocal classical music album in Canada.-Best Classical Album :...

Winner: Berlioz: Les Troyens, Vocal Soloists, Choeur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...

, conductor Charles Dutoit

Charles Dutoit

Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...

Other Nominees:

• Glitter and Be Gay, Tracy Dahl, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
  Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
  The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra, based in Calgary, Alberta. The orchestra gives the majority of its performances in the Jack Singer Concert Hall of the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts...
  
  , conductor Mario Bernardi
  Mario Bernardi
  Mario Bernardi, is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He has conducted 75 different operas and over 450 other works with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.-Early years:...
  
  
• Janáček: Glagolitic Mass and Sinfonietta, Choeur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
  Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...
  
  , conductor Charles Dutoit
  Charles Dutoit
  Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
  
  
• Pergolesi and Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, vocal soloists Catherine Robbin and Dorothea Röschmann
  Dorothea Röschmann
  Dorothea Röschmann is a German opera soprano from Flensburg.-Education and early life:Röschmann studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, under Barbara Schlick at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen, and subsequently in Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, and under Vera Rózsa in London...
  
  , Les Violons du Roy
  Les Violons du Roy
  Les Violons du Roy is a French-Canadian chamber orchestra based in Québec City, Québec. The orchestra's principal venue is the Palais Montcalm in Québec City. The orchestra also performs concerts in Montréal at the Place des Arts, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and St...
  
  , director Bernard Labadie
• Schubert: Schwanengesang D.957, baritone Kevin McMillan, piano Lev Natochenny
  Lev Natochenny
  Lev Natochenny is a Russian-American classical pianist and professor of piano.Born in Moscow, Natochenny graduated from the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatoire, where he was taught by Lev Oborin...
  
  

Best Album Design

Juno Award for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year

The Juno Award for "CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year" has been awarded since 1975, as recognition each year for the best album art for a music recording in Canada...

Winner: Andrew MacNaughton and Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace is a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band additionally consists of Jeremy Taggart on percussion, Duncan Coutts on bass, and Steve Mazur as lead guitarist...

, Naveed

Naveed

Navid , also spelled Naveed, is a Persian name meaning "bearer of good news" or "best wishes".May refer to:-Music:*Naveed, a 1994 album by rock band Our Lady Peace**"Naveed", a single from the above album-In arts and entertainment:...

Other Nominees:

• Nancy Boyle, Itch by Kim Mitchell
  Kim Mitchell
  Joseph Kim Mitchell is a Canadian guitarist. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to lead a solo career. He is currently a radio show host for CILQ-FM in Toronto....
  
  
• Kevin Lynn, Project Twinkle by King Cobb Steelie
  King Cobb Steelie
  King Cobb Steelie is a Canadian Indie rock band formed in 1991 from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The band's most successful single was 1997's "Rational", from the album Junior Relaxer. Their music fuses elements of punk, funk, jazz and dance.-History:...
  
  
• Antoine Moonen and Mike Trebilcock
  Mike Trebilcock
  Michael "Mike" Trebilcock is a retired Cornish professional footballer. He played primarily as a winger and is most famous for scoring twice in the 1966 FA Cup Final for Everton, becoming the first black player to score in an FA Cup Final.Mike Trebilcock played for non-league Tavistock before...
  
  , Starry by The Killjoys
  The Killjoys (Canadian band)
  The Killjoys were a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1992.Their first album was Starry, released in 1994, followed by Gimme Five in 1996, and Melos Modos in 1997. In 1998 a live album was released entitled Onenight and a Morningafter...
  
  
• Megan Oldfield, Smilin' Buddha Cabaret by 54-40
  54-40
  54•40 is a Canadian alternative rock group from Tsawwassen, British Columbia.The band takes their name from the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!", coined to express the expansionist agenda of James K...
  
  

Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic)

Juno Award for International Album of the Year

The Juno Award for International Album of the Year is an annual award given to a non-Canadian album. It has been given out since 1975. It was formerly known as Best Selling Album , Best Selling Album by a Foreign Artist , International Album of the Year , and Best Selling International Album...

Winner: The Colour of My Love

The Colour of My Love

The Colour of My Love is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 9, 1993. It is her third English-language album and 18th overall...

, Céline Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

Other Nominees:

• August and Everything After, Counting Crows
  Counting Crows
  Counting Crows is an American rock band originating from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1991, the group gained popularity following the release of its debut album in 1993, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones"...
  
  
• Day For Night, The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...
  
  
• The Sign, Ace of Base
  Ace of Base
  Ace of Base is a pop band based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its original lineup consisted of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg, and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren...
  
  
• VS, Pearl Jam
  Pearl Jam
  Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
  
  

Best Mainstream Jazz Album

Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Vocal Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best vocal jazz album in Canada. It was previously known as other names including Best Jazz Album and the award categories for Best Mainstream Jazz Album and Best Contemporary Jazz Album...

Winner: Free Trade

Free trade

Under a free trade policy, prices emerge from supply and demand, and are the sole determinant of resource allocation. 'Free' trade differs from other forms of trade policy where the allocation of goods and services among trading countries are determined by price strategies that may differ from...

, Free Trade

Free trade

Under a free trade policy, prices emerge from supply and demand, and are the sole determinant of resource allocation. 'Free' trade differs from other forms of trade policy where the allocation of goods and services among trading countries are determined by price strategies that may differ from...

Other Nominees:

• Bill, Please, Lorne Lofsky
  Lorne Lofsky
  Lorne Lofsky is a jazz guitarist in Toronto, Canada. He is currently teaching at York University.Lofsky started off playing rock music but took an interest in jazz upon hearing the Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue". Hearing this record was, for Lofsky, a musical revelation that led to a dramatic...
  
  
• I Thought About You..., Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee, CM is a Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance...
  
  
• Overtime, Rob McConnell
  Rob McConnell
  Robert Murray Gordon "Rob" McConnell, was a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator, and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
   and The Boss Brass
• The Water Is Wide, Jane Bunnett
  Jane Bunnett
  Jane Bunnett is a Canadian soprano saxophonist, flutist and bandleader known for her Afro-Cuban jazz melodies.In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada...
  
  

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Vocal Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best vocal jazz album in Canada. It was previously known as other names including Best Jazz Album and the award categories for Best Mainstream Jazz Album and Best Contemporary Jazz Album...

Winner: The Merlin Factor, Jim Hillman and The Merlin Factor

Other Nominees:

• Carpathian Blues, John Stetch
• Dual Vision, Joe Sealy
  Joe Sealy
  Joseph Arthur "Joe" Sealy is a Canadian jazz musician. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 2010.-Awards:* Juno Awards of 1982 - Nominee for Best Jazz Album - Clear Vision...
  
   and Paul Novotny
• Hymn to the Earth, Sonny Greenwich
  Sonny Greenwich
  Sonny Greenwich was born in Hamilton, Ontario on New Years Day of 1936. He is a Canadian Avant-garde jazz guitarist. He has played in major Canadian and American cities including a concert at Carnegie Hall. He has performed with such 'greats' as Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy...
  
  
• We Were Talking, Mark Duggan

Best Roots & Traditional Album

Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Solo

The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Solo is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres...

Winner: The Mask and Mirror, Loreena McKennitt

Loreena McKennitt

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...

Other Nominees:

• The Assassin's Apprentice, Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career, Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo...
  
  
• Driver, Ferron
  Ferron
  Ferron, born Debby Foisy on , is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada's most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women's music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Mary Gauthier...
  
  
• La Mistrine, La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...
  
  
• Turbulent Indigo, Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
  
  

Best Alternative Album

Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the alternative rock and/or indie rock genres...

Winner: Shiver

Shiver (Rose Chronicles album)

Shiver was the debut album by Canadian rock act Rose Chronicles. It was released in 1994 by Nettwerk Records.-Track listing:*All songs written by Cochrane/Maranda/Thirsk/Van Der Woerd.# "Dwelling" # "Glide "...

, Rose Chronicles

Rose Chronicles

Rose Chronicles was a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band, from Vancouver, consisted of vocalist Kristy Thirsk, guitarist Richard Maranda, bassist Judd Cochrane and drummer Steve van der Woerd.-Career:...

Other Nominees:

• Forever Again
  Forever Again
  Forever Again is the second full-length album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.-Track listing:# "New Love" – 2:59# "This Way Out" – 1:08# "About You" – 1:22# "Girlfriend" – 2:19# "Always There" – 1:53# "Stupidest Thing" – 1:52...
  
  , Eric's Trip
  Eric's Trip
  Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...
  
  
• Naveed
  Naveed (album)
  Naveed is the debut album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. It was produced by Arnold Lanni, and was released on March 22, 1994 by Sony Music Canada. Naveed became a success in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies by the end of the year. There were five singles released for the album,...
  
  , Our Lady Peace
  Our Lady Peace
  Our Lady Peace is a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band additionally consists of Jeremy Taggart on percussion, Duncan Coutts on bass, and Steve Mazur as lead guitarist...
  
  
• Project Twinkle, King Cobb Steelie
  King Cobb Steelie
  King Cobb Steelie is a Canadian Indie rock band formed in 1991 from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The band's most successful single was 1997's "Rational", from the album Junior Relaxer. Their music fuses elements of punk, funk, jazz and dance.-History:...
  
  
• Twice Removed
  Twice Removed
  Japanese Bonus TracksB-Sides* "Coax Me " * "One Professional Care" * "I Can Feel It " -Trivia:...
  
  , Sloan
  Sloan (band)
  Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...
  
  

Best Blues/Gospel Album

Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Blues Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best blues album in Canada. The award was previously a combined blues and gospel award category.-Best Blues/Gospel Album :...

Winner: Joy To The World - Jubilation V, Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir

Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir

The Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir is a choir from Montreal, Quebec, Canada that sings primarily Gospel music.- Musical career :The choir was founded and directed by Trevor W. Payne in 1982 and gave its first performance at the St. James United Church in Montreal. The first members primarily...

Other Nominees:

• Good Times Guaranteed, Downchild Blues Band
  Downchild Blues Band
  The Downchild Blues Band is a Canadian blues band, described by one reviewer as "the premier blues band in Canada". The band is still commonly known as the Downchild Blues Band, though the actual band name was shortened to "Downchild" as of the early 1980s....
  
  
• Home Is Where the Harp Is Live, Harpdog Brown and The Bloodhounds
• Just Gettin' Started, Rita Chiarelli
  Rita Chiarelli
  Rita Chiarelli is a Canadian blues singer. She has been dubbed "the goddess of Canadian blues" by CBC Radio One's Shelagh Rogers.-Biography:Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins' band in the early 1980s. She subsequently spent several years in Italy...
  
  
• Welcome Back, John Ellison
  John Ellison
  John Ellison is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful". He was born in Landgraff, a small, poverty-stricken coal mining village near Welch, West Virginia, on August 11, 1941, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, receiving his...
  
  

Best Selling Francophone Album

Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Francophone Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1992, as recognition each year for the best Francophone album in Canada.-Best Selling Francophone Album :*1992 - Luc de Larochellière, Sauvez mon âme...

Winner: Coup de Tete

Coup de tête (album)

Coup de tête is a 1994 French language album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine. It includes the hit singles "Laisse-la rêver" and "Jean Johnny Jean".-Track listing:#Coup de tête#J’entends frapper#Jean Johnny Jean#Laisse-la rêver#Ma lady mon secret...

, Roch Voisine

Roch Voisine

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host...

Other Nominees:

• Déchaînée, France D'Amour
• Jehanne Blouin chante Noel, Jehanne Blouin
• Obsession, Éric Lapointe
  Éric Lapointe (singer)
  Éric Lapointe is one of Québec's most popular francophone lead rock singers. His signature sound is characterized by very strong emotional lyrics, a rich, deep gravelly voice and the virtuoso guitar work by Stéphane Dufour...
  
  
• Y, Lynda Lemay
  Lynda Lemay
  Lynda Lemay is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter. Through her mother she is a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier....
  
  

Best Hard Rock Album

Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Rock Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1991, as recognition each year for the best rock album in Canada. The award was previously called a number of other names, including the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Album" and "Best Rock Album"....

Winner: Suffersystem, Monster Voodoo Machine

Monster Voodoo Machine

Monster Voodoo Machine a Canadian Industrial metal band, originally active from 1991 to 1998, has recently begun working on a new album.- History :...

Other Nominees:

• Get Down, Malhavoc
• Millennium
  Millennium (Front Line Assembly album)
  -Personnel:*Bill Leeb – programming, vocals*Rhys Fulber – programming*Devin Townsend – guitars *Don Harrison – guitars *Che the Minister of Defense – vocals...
  
  , Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...
  
  
• Prototype
  Prototype (Varga album)
  Protoytpe is the debut album from Canadian industrial/metal band Varga.-Tracklisting:#"Unconscience" - 3:46#"Greed" - 3:27#"Wawnah Mère" - 3:34#"Freeze Don't Move" - 3:08#"Self Proclaimed Messiah" - 4:31#"Thief" - 3:13...
  
  , Varga
  Varga
  Varga may refer to:* Sanskrit "part, division"** Varga , a technical division in Indian astrology** classes of consonants in Sanskrit phonology** a section, chapter or division of a book, see Pada...
  
  
• Purge, Econoline Crush
  Econoline Crush
  Econoline Crush is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada formed in 1992. Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver...
  
  

Single of the Year

Juno Award for Single of the Year

The Juno Award for Single of the Year has been awarded since 1974 for the best single in Canada. It has also been known as Best Single and Best Selling Single.-Best Single :...

Winner: "Could I Be Your Girl

Could I Be Your Girl

"Could I Be Your Girl" is a song by Jann Arden, released as a single in 1994, first released on her album Living Under June .The song won the 1995 Juno Award for Single of the Year....

", Jann Arden

Jann Arden

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...

Other Nominees:

• "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
  Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
  "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" is a single by the Canadian folk-rock group Crash Test Dummies, featured on their 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet.-CD maxi:# "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" — 3:53# "Here I Stand Before Me" — 3:07...
  
  ", Crash Test Dummies
  Crash Test Dummies
  The Crash Test Dummies is a Canadian folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, widely known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm".The band is most identifiable through Brad Roberts and his distinctive bass-baritone voice...
  
  
• "The Power of Love", Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  
• "Please Forgive Me
  Please Forgive Me
  "Please Forgive Me" is a single by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams from 1993.The song is written by Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams. It was released as a bonus track on Adams' greatest hits compilation album So Far So Good. It is his only Australian #1 single not written for a motion picture. The...
  
  ", Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
  
  
• "Push
  Push (Moist song)
  "Push" is the debut single by Canadian alternative rock group Moist from the band's first studio album, Silver. The song was very successful in Canada, peaking at #32 on the RPM Canadian Singles Chart. The song was also nominated for "Single of the Year" at the 1995 Juno Awards...
  
  ", Moist

Best Classical Composition

Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year

The Juno Award for "Classical Composition of the Year" has been awarded since 1987, as recognition each year for the best classical music composition in Canada.-Best Classical Composition :*Malcolm Forsyth, Atayoskewin...

Winner: "Sketches From Natal", Malcolm Forsyth

Malcolm Forsyth

Malcolm Forsyth, CM was a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....

 with CBC Vancouver Orchestra

Other Nominees:

• "From the Eastern Gate", Alexina Louie
  Alexina Louie
  Alexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...
  
  , Erica Goodman Plays Canadian Harp Music
• "Iridescence", Chris Paul Harmon, Iridescence by Espirit Orchestra
• "Missa Brevis No. 11 Sancti Johannis Baptistae", Healey Willan - Healey Willan Masses & Motets by The Choirs of St. Mary Magdalene Church
• "Sonata Rhapsody for Viola & Piano", Jean Coulthard - A Portrait of the Viola by Steven Dann
  Steven Dann
  Steven Dann is a Canadian violist, based in the United States.-Early years:Dann was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. He played the violin until 1970, when he switched to the viola. He began studying with Lorand Fenyves in Toronto in 1972, and continued his studies until he graduated from the...
  
   and Bruce Vogt

Best Rap Recording

Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year has been awarded since 1991, and is awarded for the best rap album in Canada. It was awarded under the title Best Rap Recording from 1993 to 2002....

Winner: Certified, Ghetto Concept

Ghetto Concept

Ghetto Concept is a Canadian hip-hop duo from Toronto, Ontario, composed of Kwajo Cinqo and Dolo. Infinite, who is currently a solo artist, is a former member of Ghetto Concept.-History:...

Other Nominees:

• Chi-Litchi-Latchi-Low, Freaks of Reality
  Freaks of Reality
  Freaks of Reality was a hip hop group from Toronto, best known for their 1995 Juno Award-nominated song, "Chi-Litchi-Latchi-Low".The group's first single,"Chi-Litchi-Latchi-Low", received regular rotation on Much Music, and they hosted The Mix and Rap City...
  
  
• Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be from Canada?!!
  Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be from Canada?!!
  Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be from Canada?!! is the fourth studio album by Canadian rapper Maestro Fresh-Wes, released in 1994 on Attic/LMR Records. Singles from the album include "Fine Tune da Mic" and "Certs wid Out da Retsyn". Most of the production was handled by Maestro, with contributions from...
  
  , Maestro Fresh-Wes
  Maestro (rapper)
  Wesley Williams , better known as Maestro and formerly Maestro Fresh-Wes, is a Canadian rapper, record producer, and actor. His pioneering status and outstanding achievements have led to him being referred to as the "Godfather of Canadian hip hop".In 1989 he became the first Canadian rapper to have...
  
  
• Really Livin', Rascalz
  Rascalz
  The Rascalz are a Canadian hip-hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, who played a crucial role in the artistic and commercial development of Canadian hip hop. The group consists of MCs Red1 and Misfit, and DJ Kemo. Breakdancers, Zebroc and Dedos were also part of the group.Formed in 1991, the...
  
  
• Subliminal Simulation
  Subliminal Simulation
  Subliminal Simulation is the second studio album by Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors, released in 1994 in Canada and worldwide in 1995, on EMI/Pendulum Records...
  
  , Dream Warriors
  Dream Warriors
  Dream Warriors were a Canadian hip hop duo from Toronto, Ontario, comprising King Lou and Capital Q. Described as "a pair of deft, intelligent rappers" by Allmusic, they were major contributors to the jazz rap movement of the early 1990s. Their 1991 debut album, And Now the Legacy Begins, is...
  
  

Best R&B/Soul Recording

Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "R&B/Soul Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1985, as recognition each year for the best rhythm and blues/soul album in Canada.-Best R&B/Soul Recording :*1985 - Liberty Silver, Lost Somewhere Inside Your Love...

Winner: "First Impression For The Bottom Jigglers", Bass Is Base

Bass is Base

Bass is Base was a Canadian R&B group from Toronto, Ontario, active during the 1990s.The band consisted of Chin Injeti on bass, Ivana Santilli on keyboards, and MC Mystic on percussion...

Other Nominees:

• "I Had a Dream", Carol Medina
• "Key to My Heart", The Earthtones
• "Love T.K.O.", The Nylons
  The Nylons
  The Nylons are an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Best known for their covers of The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' version of the traditional "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"....
  
  
• "Smooth & Soft", Gentlemen X

Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording

Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, formerly known as Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, is an annual award presented by Canada's Juno Awards for the best album by a Aboriginal peoples in Canada....

Winner: Arctic Rose

Arctic Rose

Arctic Rose is the 1992 debut album of Canadian singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark. Initially released independently with very little distribution outside the Northwest Territories, the album was subsequently rereleased across Canada in 1995 following Aglukark's commercial breakthrough with This...

, Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark

Susan Aglukark, OC , is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful single is "O Siem", which reached #1 on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts in 1995...

Other Nominees:

• Akua Tuta
  Akua Tuta
  Akua Tuta is the third album by Canadian folk rock duo Kashtin, released in 1994.The title track was selected by Robbie Robertson for inclusion on his television soundtrack Music for The Native Americans, and was also used on Due South in the episode "Hawk and a Handsaw".Akua Tuta was the final...
  
  , Kashtin
  Kashtin
  Kashtin were a Canadian folk rock duo in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most commercially successful and famous musical groups in First Nations history....
  
  
• Blue Voice/New Voice, Jani Lauzon
  Jani Lauzon
  Jani Lauzon is a Canadian puppeteer and musician of Métis heritage from East Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada. She is a three time Juno Award Nominee with Muppet Show credits that include additional puppetry on Follow That Bird, performing on The Jim Henson Hour, and the character Dip in the...
  
  
• Music for the Native Americans
  Music for The Native Americans
  Music for The Native Americans is a 1994 album by Robbie Robertson, compiling music written by Robertson and other colleagues for the television documentary film The Native Americans....
  
  , Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
  
   and The Red Road Ensemble
• No Regrets, Tom Jackson
  Tom Jackson (actor)
  Thomas Dale Jackson, OC , is a Canadian born Métis actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 17 years...
  
  

Best Reggae Recording

Juno Award for Reggae Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Reggae Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1985, as recognition each year for the best reggae album in Canada.-Best Reggae/Calypso Recording :*1985 - Liberty Silver & Otis Gayle, Heaven Must Have Sent You...

Winner: "Class and Credential", Carla Marshall

Other Nominees:

• "A Love Thang", Tanya Mullings
• "Lazah Current", Lazah Current
• "Smokin' the Goats", One
  One (band)
  ONE was a boy band that first appeared in 1999, recognized as both Greece and Cyprus's very first boy band. The band was formed by leading Cypriot-Greek composer Giorgos Theofanous who got them signed with Minos EMI and wrote all their music and lyrics, and consisted of Constantinos Christoforou,...
  
   (Wrong Link)
• "The Sound", Fujahtive

Best Global Recording

Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "World Music Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1992, as recognition each year for the best world music album in Canada...

Winner: Africa +, Eval Manigat

Other Nominees:

• Dancing on the Moon Contigo, Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez is a Chilean-Canadian folk and nouveau flamenco guitarist. He has won many awards from the Latino community....
  
  
• Indiscretion, Djole
  Djolé
  Djolé is a mask-dance from Temine people in Sierra Leone. It is played traditionally with a large square drum called sikko.Although a mask depicts a female, it is carried by a male....
  
  
• Nene, Alpha Yaya Diallo
  Alpha Yaya Diallo
  Alpha Yaya Diallo is a guitarist and composer who is based in Vancouver, Canada. Alpha hails from Guinea and incorporates its rich musical tradition into his original compositions.-Discography:* 1993 Néné - nominated for a Juno Award...
  
  
• Nine-Fold Heart, The Lee Pui Ming Ensemble

Best Dance Recording

Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Dance Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1990, as recognition each year for the best dance music album in Canada.-Best Dance Recording :*1990 – Kon Kan, "I Beg Your Pardon "...

Winner: Higher Love (Club Mix), Capital Sound

Other Nominees:

• "Could I Be Your Girl", Jann Arden
  Jann Arden
  Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
  
  
• "In the Night", Capital Sound
• "Music Is My Life", Temperance
• "Pure (You're Touching Me)", West End Girls
  West End Girls (Canadian band)
  West End Girls were a Canadian pop band and girl group in the early 1990s.-History:The band was formed in Vancouver by producers John Dexter and John Livingston, and consisted of three teenaged girls, Camille Henderson, Aimee MacKenzie and Silvana Petrozzi...
  
  

Best Video

Juno Award for Video of the Year

The Juno Award for "Video of the Year" has been awarded since 1984, as recognition each year for the best music video in Canada. The award was previously called the "Best Video".-Best Video :...

Winner: Lyne Charlebois, "Tunnel of Trees" by Gogh Van Go

Gogh Van Go

Gogh Van Go was a Montreal Folk-Pop duo formed by partners Dan Tierney and Sandra Luciantonio. Previously, Tierney and Luciantonio were both members of an 1980's country-rock group called the Hodads....

Other Nominees:

• Curtis Wehrfritz, "Bad Timing" by Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Jeth Weinrich
  Jeth Weinrich
  Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, music video, and commercial director.- Early life :Weinrich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, attended Parsons School of Design, and played for the Calgary Colts of the Canadian Junior Football League, the farm league for the CFL, for two years...
  
  , "Blame Your Parents" by 54-40
  54-40
  54•40 is a Canadian alternative rock group from Tsawwassen, British Columbia.The band takes their name from the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!", coined to express the expansionist agenda of James K...
  
  
• Jeth Weinrich
  Jeth Weinrich
  Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, music video, and commercial director.- Early life :Weinrich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, attended Parsons School of Design, and played for the Calgary Colts of the Canadian Junior Football League, the farm league for the CFL, for two years...
  
  , "Insensitive" by Jann Arden
  Jann Arden
  Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
  
  
• Brenton Spencer
  Brenton Spencer
  Brenton Spencer is a Canadian film and television director. His television credits include Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, 21 Jump Street, Mutant X, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Sanctuary, Stargate Atlantis and among other series. His film credits include Blown Away starring Corey Haim, Corey...
  
  , "Push
  Push (Moist song)
  "Push" is the debut single by Canadian alternative rock group Moist from the band's first studio album, Silver. The song was very successful in Canada, peaking at #32 on the RPM Canadian Singles Chart. The song was also nominated for "Single of the Year" at the 1995 Juno Awards...
  
  " by Moist