Juno Awards of 2000
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The Juno Awards of 2000 were held in Toronto, Ontario
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 during the weekend of 11-12 March 2000.

The primary ceremonies were hosted by The Moffatts
The Moffatts
The Moffatts were a Canadian pop/rock band, composed of brothers Scott, Clint, Bob and Dave Moffatt. Eldest brother Scott was born on March 30, 1983 in Whitehorse, Yukon. Less than a year later, on March 8, 1984, triplets Bob, Clint and Dave were born in Vancouver, British Columbia...

 at the SkyDome (now Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre is a multi-purpose stadium, in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower, near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...

) on 12 March 2000 and 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...

. This marked the first year that the award ceremonies were divided over two days, with non-televised award categories presented on 11 March.

The following award categories were nationally televised:
  • Best Female Artist
    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...

  • Best Male Artist
    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...

  • Best Country Male Vocalist
    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...

  • Best Group
    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...

  • 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...

  • Best Songwriter
    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 :...

  • Best Album
    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 :...

  • 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...

  • Best Vocal Jazz Album
    Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
    The Juno Award for "Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best contemporary jazz album in Canada.-Best Jazz Album :...

  • Canadian Music Hall of Fame
    Canadian Music Hall of Fame
    The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. The ceremony is held each year as part of the Juno Award ceremonies. Members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame represent many of the world's great talents...



A new design for 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...

 statuettes was created by artist Shirley Elford and introduced at this year's awards.

Nominations were announced 2 February 2000 in Toronto at the Glenn Gould Studio. Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

 received five nominations including one as director for Best Video.

Best Female Artist
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: Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...



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...

  • Lynda Lemay
    Lynda Lemay
    Lynda Lemay is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter. Through her mother she is a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier....

  • Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother...

  • Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...


Best Male Artist
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: 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...



Other Nominees:
  • Paul Brandt
    Paul Brandt
    Paul Rennée Belobersycky is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break...

  • Choclair
    Choclair
    Kareem Blake, better known by his stage name Choclair, is a Canadian rapper. He helped develop Canadian hip hop in the 1990s, as a member of the Circle.-Career:...

  • Tom Cochrane
    Tom Cochrane
    Tom Cochrane, OC Canadian musician and humanitarian, best known for his hit songs "Life Is a Highway", "Lunatic Fringe", "Human Race" and "I Wish You Well". Cochrane fronted the Canadian rock band Red Rider and has won seven Juno Awards...

  • Edwin
    Edwin (musician)
    Edwin is a Canadian alternative rock singer and solo artist from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush. He went solo in late 1997 and released...


Best New Solo Artist
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: Tal Bachman
Tal Bachman
Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album.-Biography and musical career:...



Other Nominees:
  • Tory Cassis
  • Tara Lyn Hart
    Tara Lyn Hart
    Tara Lyn Hart, born April 11, 1978 in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada, is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter.-Biography:Tara Lyn Hart has been singing since she was 5 years old. By the time she started junior high school, she was playing 80 dates a year, performing anywhere she could...

  • Jorane
    Jorane
    Jorane is a French-Canadian singer/cellist, who is notable for her alternative music style on a typically classical instrument as well as her ability to sing while playing cello at the same time....

  • Ivana Santilli
    Ivana Santilli
    Ivana Santilli is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base. Santili is presently signed to CP Records.-Early life and career:...


Best Group
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: Matthew Good Band
Matthew Good Band
Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...



Other Nominees:
  • La Chicane
    La Chicane
    La Chicane is a francophone rock band from Québec, Canada. They performed at the 2003 Toronto Rocks SARS benefit concert.-Past & Present Members:* Dany Bédar, bassist * Martin Bédard, drummer and Dany Bedar brother...

  • Moist
  • 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...

  • The Tea Party
    The Tea Party
    The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...


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: Sky
Sky (Canadian band)
Sky was an R&B-influenced pop music group from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The duo originally consisted of James Renald and Antoine Sicotte. Both were songwriters, producers and multi-instrumentalists, who met in 1992 at a music engineering school in Montreal...



Other Nominees:
  • Gob
    Gob (band)
    Gob is a Canadian punk band from Langley, British Columbia formed in 1993, The Band consists of Tom Thacker, Theo Goutzinakis, Gabe Mantle and Steven Fairweather. Gob's most successful album is World According to Gob and their most successful song to date is I Hear You Calling...

  • Len
    Len (band)
    Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...

  • Prozzäk
    Prozzäk
    Prozzäk was a Canadian pop music virtual band that consisted of Simon and Milo . The name Prozzäk was inspired by the drug Prozac. In an interview with the New York Times, McCollum mentions that their music makes people feel good and happy which is an effect of the drug Prozac...

  • Serial Joe
    Serial Joe
    Serial Joe was a Canadian band from Newmarket, Ontario which consisted of high school students Ryan Dennis , Ryan Stever , John Davidson and Dan Stadnicki . The group released four full-length albums...


Best Songwriter
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: Shania Twain
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...

 (co-Songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange), "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
Man! I Feel like a Woman!
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is the seventh single released from Shania Twain's 1997 album Come on Over. It was written by Mutt Lange and Twain. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!," originally released to North American country radio stations in early 1999, was the opening song on both Twain's Come on Over...

", "That Don't Impress Me Much
That Don't Impress Me Much
That Don't Impress Me Much is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the sixth country single released from her 1997 album Come on Over. It was third to pop and fourth to international markets. The song was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Shania Twain, and was originally released to...

", "You've Got a Way
You've Got a Way
"You've Got a Way" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the eighth single released to country radio from her 1997 album Come on Over. It was also the fourth single released to AC radio and fifth to Oceania. It was written by Mutt Lange and Twain. The song was originally released to...

"

Other Nominees:
  • Tal Bachman
    Tal Bachman
    Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album.-Biography and musical career:...

    , "If You Sleep", "She's So High"
  • 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:...

    , "Last Night of the World", "Mango", "Pacing the Cage"
  • Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother...

    , "Believe in You" and "If I Didn't Have You" (co-writer Eric Bazilian), "Love Lift Me" (co-writers Eric Bazilian, Randy Cantor, John Bettis)
  • Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

    , "So Pure", "Thank U", "Unsent"

Best Country Female Vocalist
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: Shania Twain
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...



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...

  • Terri Clark
    Terri Clark
    Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year...

  • 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...

  • Tara Lyn Hart
    Tara Lyn Hart
    Tara Lyn Hart, born April 11, 1978 in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada, is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter.-Biography:Tara Lyn Hart has been singing since she was 5 years old. By the time she started junior high school, she was playing 80 dates a year, performing anywhere she could...


Best Country Male Vocalist
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: Paul Brandt
Paul Brandt
Paul Rennée Belobersycky is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break...



Other Nominees:
  • Julian Austin
    Julian Austin (musician)
    Julian Austin, born August 24, 1963 in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, is a country music singer. He has released more than fifteen singles in his native Canada, including the Number One hit "Little Ol' Kisses"...

  • John Landry
    John Landry
    John Landry is a Canadian country music artist. Landry's debut album, Forever Took Too Long, was released in 1999 by Spin Records. Its first two singles, "There You Were" and "Bit by Bit," both reached the Top 10 of the Canadian Country Singles chart...

  • Jamie Warren
    Jamie Warren
    Jamie Warren, born April 8, 1961 in Hanover, Ontario, Canada, is a country music singer-songwriter, and the most awarded independent male artist in the Canadian country music industry.-Biography:...

  • 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:...


Best Country Group or Duo
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: The Rankins

Other Nominees:
  • 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:...

  • Lace
    Lace (band)
    Lace was a Canadian country music group who formed in 1998 with the backing of music producer David Foster. Active between 1998 and 2001, the band charted four singles on national country music charts, in addition to releasing a self-titled studio album on 143 Records Lace was a Canadian country...

  • 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...

  • The Wilkinsons
    The Wilkinsons
    The Wilkinsons is a country music trio from Trenton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1997, the group comprises lead singer Amanda Wilkinson, her brother Tyler Wilkinson, and their father, Steve Wilkinson. The Wilkinsons achieved success late in 1998 with the hit single "26 Cents", a Number One on the...


International Achievement Award
Juno International Achievement Award
The Juno Award for "International Achievement" was awarded sporadically from 1992 - 2000, as recognition for international achievement by musicians from Canada.-International Achievement Award :*1997 - Celine Dion*1997 - Alanis Morissette...

Winner: 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...


Best Producer

Winner: Tal Bachman
Tal Bachman
Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album.-Biography and musical career:...

 and Bob Rock
Bob Rock
Robert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...

, "She's So High" and "If You Sleep" by Tal Bachman
Tal Bachman
Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album.-Biography and musical career:...



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:...

    , "One Man Army
    One Man Army (song)
    "One Man Army" is a 1999 song by Our Lady Peace, released as the first single from their third album, Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.-Meaning:...

    " and "Is Anybody Home?
    Is Anybody Home?
    "Is Anybody Home?" is a song by Canadian Alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, and was the second single released from their third album, Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch...

    " 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...

  • Jeff Martin
    Jeff Martin (Canadian musician)
    Jeffrey Scott Martin is a Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for fronting the rock band The Tea Party. Martin began his career as a solo artist in October 2005, when The Tea Party disbanded....

    , "Heaven Coming Down" and "The Messenger" by The Tea Party
    The Tea Party
    The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...

  • Greg Wells
    Greg Wells
    Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has produced and written hits with Adele, Weezer, Pink, Theophilus London, Deftones, Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright, The All American Rejects, OneRepublic, Mika, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach,...

    , "Keep A Lid On Things" and "Get You In the Morning" by 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...

  • Michael Phillip Wojewoda
    Michael Phillip Wojewoda
    -External links:*...

    , "Puzzle Girl" and "You & Me" by Kim Stockwood
    Kim Stockwood
    Kim Stockwood is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. She was a member of Atlantic Canadian regional music group Shaye from 2003-2009 with Damhnait Doyle and Tara MacLean ....


Best Recording Engineer
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: Paul Northfield
Paul Northfield
Paul Northfield is a prolific record producer and sound engineer, who has worked on albums by bands like Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Rush and Suicidal Tendencies.-Selected discography:-External links:* * *...

 and Jagori Tanna
Jagori Tanna
Jagori Tanna is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote almost all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced much of it as well...

, "Summertime In The Void" and "When Did You Get Back From Mars?" by I Mother Earth
I Mother Earth
I Mother Earth, or IME, was a Canadian alternative rock band. The band was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s; its members have moved on to other projects.-Early years:...



Other Nominees:
  • Michael Banton-Jones, "Halfway to Heaven" by David Leask
  • Richard Benoit, "Slow Bombing the World" by Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan , is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has written songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, and Josh Groban...

  • 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...

    , "Sucks To Be You" by Prozzäk
    Prozzäk
    Prozzäk was a Canadian pop music virtual band that consisted of Simon and Milo . The name Prozzäk was inspired by the drug Prozac. In an interview with the New York Times, McCollum mentions that their music makes people feel good and happy which is an effect of the drug Prozac...

    , "Supersex 69" 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...

  • John Whynot
    John Whynot
    John Whynot is a Canadian musician, producer, engineer, film score mixer and composer. Originally based in Toronto, since 1989 he has resided in Los Angeles....

     and Colin Linden
    Colin Linden
    Colin Linden is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The Band.Linden is primarily a electric blues guitarist,...

    , "Last Night of the World" by 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:...

    , "Lean on Your Peers" by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
    Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
    Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are a Canadian folk rock/alternative country band with blues and country influences. The band was formed in 1996, in Hamilton, Ontario, by Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing, and Colin Linden.-Early Period: 1990s:...


Best Album
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: Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is the fourth album and second internationally released album by singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 3, 1998...



Other Nominees:
  • Hot Show
    Hot Show
    Hot Show is the debut album by the Canadian musical duo Prozzäk.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 0:08# "Europa" – 3:30# "Strange Disease" – 3:26# "Omobolasire" – 3:41# "Shag Tag " – 3:59# "Hot Show" – 4:08# "Mediterranean Lady" – 4:05...

    , Prozzäk
    Prozzäk
    Prozzäk was a Canadian pop music virtual band that consisted of Simon and Milo . The name Prozzäk was inspired by the drug Prozac. In an interview with the New York Times, McCollum mentions that their music makes people feel good and happy which is an effect of the drug Prozac...

  • On a Day Like Today, 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...

  • These Are Special Times
    These Are Special Times
    These Are Special Times is a Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on October 30, 1998 through Epic subsidiary 550 Music...

    , 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...

  • Tuesday's Child
    Tuesday's Child
    For the nursery rhyme, see Monday's ChildTuesday's Child is Canadian singer-songwriter Amanda Marshall's second album, released in 1999...

    , Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Marshall
    Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother...


Best Blues 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: Gust Of Wind, Ray Bonneville

Other Nominees:
  • Blues Party, by Chris Whiteley
  • Call It What You Will, Steve Hill
    Steve Hill
    Steve Hill is an American Christian clergyman and evangelist. He is best known as the evangelist who preached in what became known as the Brownsville Revival...

  • Down in the Groove, Jack de Keyzer
    Jack de Keyzer
    Jack de Keyzer is a two-time Juno Award winner and a seven-time Maple Blues award winning artist, blues guitarist, singer, song writer and producer. Jack has received numerous awards including Maple Blues Awards for Best Blues Album, and the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award...

  • Michael Jerome Browne, Michael Jerome Browne

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: Skinnamarink TV
Skinnamarink TV
Skinnamarink TV is a children's television show that aired from 1997 to 2000 and aired on CBC in Canada and The Learning Channel in the US. It was created by Lynn Harvey and Richard Mortimer for Skinnamarink Entertainment in association with Craftsman & Scribes Creative Workshop, The Learning...

, Sharon, Lois and Bram

Other Nominees:
  • Ants In Your Pants, Volume 1, Douglas John
  • Les Petites Merveiles de Fanchon, Fanchon
  • Play On..., Jam Sandwich
    Jam sandwich
    In British slang, a jam butty is a police traffic or fast response car .The term came into common use in the 1970s, when such cars changed from the traditional blue and white colour scheme to white with a broad fluorescent orange stripe along the side...

  • Song of the Unicorn, Susan Hammond's Classical Kids

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: Schumann: String Quartets, St. Lawrence String Quartet

Other Nominees:
  • Bach: Well-Tempered Clarvier, Book 2, Angela Hewitt
    Angela Hewitt
    Angela Hewitt, OC, OBE is a Canadian classical pianist. She holds British nationality through her father, Godfrey, who was the organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario for almost fifty years.-Career:...

  • For the End of Time, Leila Josefowicz
    Leila Josefowicz
    Leila Bronia Josefowicz , is an American/Canadian classical violinist.-Biography:Josefowicz was born in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method...

  • Naida Cole, Naida Cole
    Naida Cole
    Naida Margaret Cole is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, where she is currently enrolled.Cole's website and Facebook pages state that she is a...

  • Rzewiski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, Marc-Andre 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...


Best Classical Album (Large Ensemble)

Winner: Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

Other Nominees:
  • Brahms: Two Piano Concertos, Anton Kuerti
    Anton Kuerti
    Anton Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven...

    , Orchestre Métropolitain
    Orchestre Métropolitain
    The Orchestre Métropolitain is a Canadian orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec. The OM primarily gives its concerts in the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, and also performs at the Théâtre Maisonneuve...

  • Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina, 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....

    , Karina Gauvin
    Karina Gauvin
    Karina Gauvin is an internationally-recognized Canadian soprano who has made several recordings and is especially recognised for her interpretation of Baroque music. Opera News stated that, "Gauvin knows how to rivet an audience in opera and concert. She has been a queen of Baroque opera for years...

  • Nights in the Gardenss of Spain, Angela Cheng, Hans Graf
    Hans Graf
    Hans Graf is an Austrian conductor.As a child, Graf learned the violin and the piano. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Graz, Austria, and graduated with diplomas in piano and conducting. He also participated in conducting master classes with Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Arvīds Jansons...

    , 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...

  • Vivaldi: Concerti for Strings, 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...


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: German Romantic Opera, Ben Heppner
Ben Heppner
Ben Heppner, CC is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice.Heppner was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek...



Other Nominees:
  • Ae Fond Kiss, Edith Wiens, Rudolph Jansen, Judy Loman
  • Bach: Arias & Oboe d'Amore, Daniel Taylor
    Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
    Daniel Taylor is a Canadian countertenor and early music specialist. He completed his undergraduate studies in English, philosophy, and music at the the Faculty of Music of McGill University and his graduate work in religion and music at the Université de Montréal...

  • Heavenly Spheres
    Heavenly Spheres
    Heavenly Spheres is an a cappella choral album by the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal under the direction of Christopher Jackson. Recorded in 1998, it features songs from the late 15th to early 16th century...

    , Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
    Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
    The Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal is an early music vocal ensemble based in Montreal, Canada. Co-founded in 1974 by the organ and harpsichord players Christopher Jackson, Réjean Poirier, and Hélène Dugal, the group became an important part of the Early Music Revival in Montreal during the...

  • Images de Noel, Karina Gauvin
    Karina Gauvin
    Karina Gauvin is an internationally-recognized Canadian soprano who has made several recordings and is especially recognised for her interpretation of Baroque music. Opera News stated that, "Gauvin knows how to rivet an audience in opera and concert. She has been a queen of Baroque opera for years...

    , Michael McMahon
    Michael McMahon
    Michael E. "Mike" McMahon is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was previously a member of the New York City Council....

    , Nora Shulman

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: Michael Wrycraft (creative director), Radio Fusebox by Andy Stochansky
Andy Stochansky
Andy Stochansky is a songwriter living in Los Angeles who was once signed to RCA U.S. He first started out as one the most wanted drummers in the Canadian music scene. His popularity caught the attention of songstress Ani DiFranco. Living just south of the border in Buffalo, New York, she asked him...



Other Nominees:
  • Garnet Armstrong, Mark Bartkiw, Amo3ba Corp, Margaret Malandruccolo, Blue Green Orange
    Blue Green Orange
    Blue Green Orange is the third album by the Canadian alternative rock band I Mother Earth, released by Universal on July 13, 1999. Featuring album covers in blue, green, or orange, the album went gold in Canada....

     by I Mother Earth
    I Mother Earth
    I Mother Earth, or IME, was a Canadian alternative rock band. The band was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s; its members have moved on to other projects.-Early years:...

  • Tom Chaggaris, Eve Egoyan, Johnnie Eisen, Thetihingsinbeteween by Eve Egoyan
  • Anouk Lessard, Sebastien Toupin, Vent Fou by Jorane
    Jorane
    Jorane is a French-Canadian singer/cellist, who is notable for her alternative music style on a typically classical instrument as well as her ability to sing while playing cello at the same time....

  • Catherine Stockhausen, Lee Towndrow, Between the Bridges
    Between the Bridges
    Japanese Bonus TracksB-sides* "Glad to Be Here"...

     by 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 Gospel Album
Juno Award for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best Christian/gospel music album in Canada...

Winner: Legacy Of Hope, Deborah Klassen

Other Nominees:
  • God Only Knows, by The LaPointes
  • Sheryl Stacey, by Sheryl Stacey
  • Sinner and the Saint, by Jon Buller
    Jon Buller
    Jon Buller is a Contemporary Christian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He now resides in Vernon, British Columbia, where he works as Pastor of Worship and the Arts at Vernon Alliance Church, a position he began in August 2005...

  • Sweetsalt, by Sweetsalt

Best Instrumental Album
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: In My Hands
In My Hands
In My Hands, an album by Natalie MacMaster, was released in 1999 on the Rounder Records label.The album won the 2000 Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album.-Track listing:# "In My Hands" - 4:23# "Welcome to the Trossachs" - 7:17# "Gramma" - 2:35...

, Natalie MacMaster
Natalie MacMaster
Natalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music....



Other Nominees:
  • Natural Sleep Inducement, David Bradstreet
    David Bradstreet
    David Bradstreet is a Canadian-based musician. He spent his childhood in Oakville, Ontario and began his music career in the late 1960s....

    , Dan Gibson
    Dan Gibson
    Dan Gibson was a Canadian photographer, cinematographer and sound recordist.During the late 1940s, Dan Gibson took photographs and made nature films, including Audubon Wildlife Theatre. Dan produced many films and television series through which he learned how to record wildlife sound...

  • Piano Cascades, John Herberman, Dan Gibson
    Dan Gibson
    Dan Gibson was a Canadian photographer, cinematographer and sound recordist.During the late 1940s, Dan Gibson took photographs and made nature films, including Audubon Wildlife Theatre. Dan produced many films and television series through which he learned how to record wildlife sound...

  • The Piper's Legacy, Rob Crabtree, Oliver Schroer
    Oliver Schroer
    Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer.-Early life:Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small crossroads near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey Highlands Secondary School in Flesherton, where he played French horn in the school band. He also...

  • Utopia, Robert Michaels

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: Millennium
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....

, Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...



Other Nominees:
  • Americana, The Offspring
    The Offspring
    The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...

  • ...Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

  • Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin
    Ricky Martin
    Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

  • These Are Special Times, 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...


Best Traditional Jazz Album - Instrumental
Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Traditional Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best traditional jazz album in Canada...

Winner: Deep In A Dream, Pat LaBarbera
Pat LaBarbera
Pat LaBarbera is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands from 1967–1973....



Other Nominees:
  • Art & Soul, Renee Rosnes
    Renee Rosnes
    Irene Louise Rosnes , professionally known as Renee Rosnes , is a pianist, composer and arranger in the hard bop and post-bop mediums.-Biography:...

  • New Horizons, Bernie Senensky Quintet
  • P.J. Perry & The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, P.J. Perry
    P.J. Perry
    Paul John Perry Guloien is a jazz saxophonist from Edmonton, Alberta. He has won one Juno award as a solo artist, and one for his work with The Rob McConnell Tentet....

  • Time Warp Plays the Music of Duke Ellington, Time Warp

Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Instrumental
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best contemporary jazz album in Canada.-Best Jazz Album :...

Winner: ...so far, D.D. Jackson

Other Nominees:
  • Blue Jade, 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
  • The Field, Jeff Johnston
  • Freeflight, Bob Shaw
    Bob Shaw
    Bob Shaw, born Robert Shaw, was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland. He was noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980...

     and Freeflight
  • Puzzle City, Jean-Pierre Zanella

Best Vocal Jazz Album
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1977, as recognition each year for the best contemporary jazz album in Canada.-Best Jazz Album :...

Winner: When I Look In Your Eyes
When I Look in Your Eyes
When I Look in Your Eyes is the fifth album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 1999 . It was nominated for Album of the Year, the first time in 25 years that a jazz album was nominated for the most coveted prize of the night, and won two awards for Best Jazz Vocal and...

, Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...



Other Nominees:
  • How My Heart Sings, Kate Hammett-Vaughan
  • I've Got Your Number, Jeri Brown
  • Swing Ladies, Swing!, Carol Welsman
    Carol Welsman
    Carol Welsman is a Canadian jazz vocalist and pianist. She is the granddaughter of conductor/composer Frank Welsman and the sister of composer John Welsman. She has been nominated 5 times for the Juno Award....

  • There's Beauty in the Rain, Karin Plato

Best Roots or Traditional Album - Group
Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group
The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group 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: Kings of Love, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings

Other Nominees:
  • Encore!, Barachois
    Barachois (band)
    Barachois is a Canadian band from Prince Edward Island that plays traditional Acadian music.The members of the group are:*Albert Arsenault - fiddle, percussion, bass, vocals*Hélène Bergeron - keyboard, guitar, fiddle, vocals...

  • The Road to Canso, Scruj MacDuhk
    Scruj macduhk
    Scruj MacDuhk was a Juno-nominated folk band that included singer-songwriter Ruth Moody, a current member of the Wailin' Jennys, as lead singer. The band released two albums, Live at the Westend Cultural Centre in 1997 and The Road to Canso, in 1999, and broke up in 2001....

  • Turn, Great Big Sea
    Great Big Sea
    Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage...

  • Xième
    Xième
    Xième , like its name in French indicates, is La Bottine Souriante's 10th released album. A studio album released in 1998, it was released in the United States under the title Rock 'n Reel.-Track listing:#"Reel du Forgeron"...

    , 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...


Best Roots or Traditional Album - Solo
Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group
The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group 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: Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu, 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:...



Other Nominees:
  • Gentleman of Leisure, Jesse Winchester
    Jesse Winchester
    Jesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...

  • In My Hands, Natalie MacMaster
    Natalie MacMaster
    Natalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music....

  • Lan Duil, Mary Jane Lamond
    Mary Jane Lamond
    Mary Jane Lamond is a Canadian celtic folk musician who performs traditional Canadian Gaelic folk songs from Cape Breton Island. She was born in 1960 in Kingston, Ontario, graduated from Westmount High School in Montreal and then the Celtic Studies program at St...

  • Whereabouts, Ron Sexsmith
    Ron Sexsmith
    Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...


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: Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars is a 1999 album recorded by Julie Doiron in collaboration with the indie rock band Wooden Stars. It represented the first time that Doiron had collaborated with a band since the end of Eric's Trip....

, Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

 and Wooden Stars
Wooden Stars
Wooden Stars are a Canadian indie rock band formed in the 1990s. The band, from Ottawa, consists of vocalist and guitarist Julien Beillard, guitarist Mike Feuerstack, bassists Josh Latour and Mathieu Beillard, and drummer Andrew McCormack.-Style:...



Other Nominees:
  • Clayton Park
    Clayton Park (album)
    Clayton Park is the second full-length album by Canadian rock band Thrush Hermit. It was released on Sonic Unyon in 1999, and is the last recording they released as a band...

    , Thrush Hermit
    Thrush Hermit
    -History:Thrush Hermit was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1992 by Joel Plaskett , Rob Benvie , Ian McGettigan , and Michael Catano...

  • My Love Is Bold
    My Love Is Bold
    My Love is Bold is an EP by Canadian rock band Danko Jones.It was the band's breakthrough in Canada, with four of its six tracks gaining significant airplay on modern rock stations such as CFNY.-Track listing:#"Samuel Sin" – 1:18#"Bounce" – 3:06#"Sex Change Shake" – 2:12#"The Mango Kid" –...

    , Danko Jones
    Danko Jones
    Danko Jones is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Danko Jones and JC...

  • Sometimes I Cry
    Sometimes I Cry
    "Sometimes I Cry" is a song by American singer Eric Benét. It is the lead single from his fifth album Lost In Time. The song has peaked at number 20 so far on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.- Charts :...

    , Tricky Woo
  • You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
    You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
    You Can't Stop the Bum Rush is the 1999 major-label debut of alternative pop/hip-hop group Len released on Work Records. The album consists of a number of songs of different genres....

    , Len
    Len (band)
    Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...


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: En Catimini, La Chicane
La Chicane
La Chicane is a francophone rock band from Québec, Canada. They performed at the 2003 Toronto Rocks SARS benefit concert.-Past & Present Members:* Dany Bédar, bassist * Martin Bédard, drummer and Dany Bedar brother...



Other Nominees:
  • D'Autres rives, Bruno Pelletier
    Bruno Pelletier
    Bruno Pelletier , is a francophone Quebecer singer.-Life:Pelletier was born in Charlesbourg, a suburb of Quebec City. In 1983 Pelletier performed in the bands Amanite and Sneak Preview, which sang in English. He later started a group called Pëll, singing in French. At 23 years old, he moved to...

  • Les Fourmis, Jean Leloup
  • Live, Lynda Lemay
    Lynda Lemay
    Lynda Lemay is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter. Through her mother she is a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier....

  • Notre-Dame de Paris, various artists

Best Pop/Adult Album
Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year
The Juno Award for "Pop Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1999, as recognition each year for the best pop album in Canada.-Best Pop Album :*1999 - Barenaked Ladies, Stunt-Best Pop/Adult Album :...

Winner: Colour Moving and Still
Colour Moving and Still
Colour Moving and Still is the second album by Canadian singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, released in 1999. An edition of the album is also available with a bonus disc.-Track listing:All songs written by Chantal Kreviazuk#"Blue" – 4:58...

, Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...



Other Nominees:
  • On a Day Like Today, 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...

  • Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
    Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
    Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is the fourth album and second internationally released album by singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 3, 1998...

    , Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

  • Tal Bachman, Tal Bachman
    Tal Bachman
    Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album.-Biography and musical career:...

  • Taming the Tiger
    Taming the Tiger
    Taming the Tiger is the sixteenth studio album by Joni Mitchell. It was released in 1998 and was widely believed to be the last album of new material Mitchell would ever release . The title refers to the unexpected commercial and critical success of her previous album 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 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: Beautiful Midnight
Beautiful Midnight
Beautiful Midnight is the third album released by the Matthew Good Band and the follow-up to the band's 1997 album, Underdogs.The album produced four successful singles and music videos, "Hello Time Bomb", "Load Me Up", "Strange Days", and "The Future is X-Rated"...

, Matthew Good Band
Matthew Good Band
Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...



Other Nominees:
  • Another Spin Around the Sun
    Another Spin Around the Sun
    Another Spin Around the Sun is the debut solo album by Canadian alternative rock musician Edwin. It was released on April 27, 1999 in Canada, and July 4, 2000 in the United States. The album marked a musical change in his career from his previous work with I Mother Earth, being more pop-oriented....

    , Edwin
    Edwin (musician)
    Edwin is a Canadian alternative rock singer and solo artist from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush. He went solo in late 1997 and released...

  • Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
    Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
    Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch is the third studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released on September 21, 1999 by Columbia Records. The album was very successful in Canada, debuting at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. The album was certified 3x...

    , 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...

  • Mercedes 5 and Dime
    Mercedes 5 and Dime
    Mercedes 5 and Dime was the third and final album released by the Canadian alternative rock band Moist. Released in Canada in 1999 and in the United States a year later, it includes the hits "Breathe" and "Underground". The album was released with different album covers for the Canadian and United...

    , Moist
  • Triptych, The Tea Party
    The Tea Party
    The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...


Best Single
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: "Bobcaygeon
Bobcaygeon (song)
"Bobcaygeon" is a single by The Tragically Hip, from their sixth album, Phantom Power. The song is named after a town in Canada called Bobcaygeon, Ontario. The song won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 2000....

", 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:
  • "Heaven Coming Down
    Heaven Coming Down
    "Heaven Coming Down" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tea Party. It a rock composition of heavy drums, chiming 12-string Rickenbacker guitar with bass and keyboard accompaniment. The music video was shot in Toronto....

    ", The Tea Party
    The Tea Party
    The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...

  • "Hello Time Bomb
    Hello Time Bomb
    "Hello Time Bomb" is the first single by Matthew Good Band from their third album, Beautiful Midnight. It was recorded in 1999 at Greenhouse Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia. The song was nominated for "Best Single" at the 2000 Juno Awards, losing to The Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon"...

    ", Matthew Good Band
    Matthew Good Band
    Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...

  • "Steal My Sunshine
    Steal My Sunshine
    "Steal My Sunshine" is a song written by Marc Costanzo for Len's third album You Can't Stop the Bum Rush. The backdrop is based on a sample of a short instrumental portion of Andrea True Connection's 1976 disco single "More, More, More"...

    ", Len
    Len (band)
    Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...

  • "Sucks to Be You", Prozzäk
    Prozzäk
    Prozzäk was a Canadian pop music virtual band that consisted of Simon and Milo . The name Prozzäk was inspired by the drug Prozac. In an interview with the New York Times, McCollum mentions that their music makes people feel good and happy which is an effect of the drug Prozac...


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: Shattered Night, Shivering Stars, 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...



Other Nominees:
  • Arc, 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...

  • String Quartet No. 1, Glen Buhr
  • The Book of Mirrors, Gary Kuleshha
  • Winter Poems, Glen Buhr

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: Ice Cold
Ice Cold
Ice Cold is the debut studio album of Canadian rapper Choclair, released November 2, 1999 in Canada and March 14, 2000 in the United States. It was released on major label Virgin/Priority Records. The album's early success was driven by the first single, "Let's Ride", which reached #37 on the...

, Choclair
Choclair
Kareem Blake, better known by his stage name Choclair, is a Canadian rapper. He helped develop Canadian hip hop in the 1990s, as a member of the Circle.-Career:...



Other Nominees:
  • Deliverance, Citizen Kane
  • Global Warning, 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...

  • Money or Love, Saukrates
    Saukrates
    Karl Amani Wailoo , better known by his stage name Saukrates , is a Canadian rapper, singer, and record producer of Guyanese descent. He is the co-founder of Capitol Hill Music, and lead singer of hip-hop/R&B group Big Black Lincoln...

  • Don't Wanna Be Your Slave, Michie Mee
    Michie Mee
    Michelle McCullock , better known by her stage name Michie Mee, is a Canadian rapper and actor. As Canada's first notable female MC, she is considered a national hip-hop pioneer.-Early life and career:...

     with Esthero
    Esthero
    Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...


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: Thinkin' About You
Thinkin' About You
Thinkin' About You is the fourth country studio album by country singer Trisha Yearwood. The album reached #3 on the Billboard country albums chart....

, 2Rude featuring Latoya & Miranda

Other Nominees:
  • All My Love, Michael Clarke
    Michael Clarke
    Michael Clarke may refer to:* Michael Clarke * Michael Clarke , Australian cricketer* Michael Clarke , American musician* Michael Clarke , Australian ornithologist...

  • Brown, Ivana Santilli
    Ivana Santilli
    Ivana Santilli is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base. Santili is presently signed to CP Records.-Early life and career:...

  • Nodeja, Nodeja
  • Tha Crab Theory, Blacklisted
    Blacklisted (band)
    Blacklisted was a hardcore band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have toured North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the UK.-History:...

     featuring ORA, Taj and Deslisha Thomas

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: Falling Down
Falling Down
Falling Down is a 1993 crime-drama film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster , a divorcee and unemployed former defense engineer...

, Chester Knight & The Wind

Other Nominees:
  • Love that Strong, Elizabeth Hill
    Elizabeth Hill
    Mary Elizabeth Hill is a female freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the women's 400m freestyle event at the 2003 Pan American Games....

  • To Bring Back Yesterday, Fara
    Fara
    -Places:* Fara, Bloke, Slovenia* Fara, Orkney, an island in Scotland* Fara, a village in the District of Safad, destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War* Fara, Burkina Faso, a town and Department of Burkina Faso...

  • Touch the Earth and Sky, Vern Cheechoo
  • World Hand Drum Champions '98, Red Bull
    Red Bull
    Red Bull is an energy drink sold by the Austrian Red Bull GmbH, created in 1987 by the Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz. In terms of market share, Red Bull is the most popular energy drink in the world, with 3 billion cans sold each year. Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an already...


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: Heart & Soul'', Lazo
Lazo (musician)
Lazo is a Reggae musician from Dominica. He is from Castle Bruce, Dominica. He also holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto....



Other Nominees:
  • Hard End, The Luge Sessions
  • Sometimes, Choices
  • Thanks and Devotion, Willi Williams
    Willi Williams
    Willi Williams is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and producer. He is known as the "Armagideon Man" after his hit, "Armagideon Time", first recorded in 1978 at Studio One in Kingston. The song was covered by The Clash as the flipside of their "London Calling" single.-Biography:Williams was born...

  • What If I Told You, Andru Branch
    Andru Branch
    Andru Reginald Arnold Branch is a Canadian reggae musician, singer-songwriter and leader of the reggae band Andru Branch & Halfway Tree.-Career:...


Best Global Album
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: Omnisource, Madagascar Slim
Madagascar Slim
Randriamananjara Radofa Besata Jean Longin is a Canadian-Malagasy folk and blues guitarist, who records and performs under the stage name Madagascar Slim...



Other Nominees:
  • Bambatulu, Lilison Di Kinara
  • Entente Cordiale, Show-Do-Man
  • Firedance, Toronto Tabla Ensemble and Friends
  • Jongo Le, Celso Machado
    Celso Machado
    Celso Machado is a Brazilian world music guitarist, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. For over forty years he has performed on concert stages throughout Brazil, Western Europe and Canada, as well as in the United States...


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: Silence
Silence
Silence is the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech....

, Delerium
Delerium
Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...



Other Nominees:
  • Arriba, Joee
  • Dancing in the Key of Love, Temperance
  • Over and Over, Emjay
  • The Rush Won't Stop, Steve Austin
    Steve Austin (musician)
    Steve Austin is the guitarist, singer and songwriter for noise rock band Today Is The Day. Austin has been the band's only permanent member since their 1992 debut EP, How To Win Friends And Influence People....


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: Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

, "So Pure
So Pure
"So Pure" is a rock song written and produced by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard for Morissette's fourth album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie...

" by Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...



Other Nominees:
  • Ulf Buddensieck, "Underground" by Moist
  • Marc Lostracco, "Strange Disease" by Prozzäk
    Prozzäk
    Prozzäk was a Canadian pop music virtual band that consisted of Simon and Milo . The name Prozzäk was inspired by the drug Prozac. In an interview with the New York Times, McCollum mentions that their music makes people feel good and happy which is an effect of the drug Prozac...

  • Andrew MacNaughtan, "On the Scene" by 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:...

  • William Morrison
    William Morrison (director)
    William Morrison , is a Canadian born Juno Award-nominated music video director, documentary film director, and musician...

    , "Hello Time Bomb
    Hello Time Bomb
    "Hello Time Bomb" is the first single by Matthew Good Band from their third album, Beautiful Midnight. It was recorded in 1999 at Greenhouse Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia. The song was nominated for "Best Single" at the 2000 Juno Awards, losing to The Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon"...

    " by Matthew Good
    Matthew Good
    Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...

    Band

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