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The music video for "Higher" was directed by Mick Soiza and released on 25 March 2021. [2] At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, it was nominated for Best Video. [3] "Higher" was the fourth most played first nations song on Australian radio in 2021. [4] At the APRA Music Awards of 2022, the song won Most Performed R&B / Soul Work. [5]
Inez Jasper (née Point), also known as Inez, [1] (born May 19, 1981) is a Canadian musician, [2] whose music blends pop, dance, hip hop and traditional First Nations music.. She is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year, in 2010 for her album Singsoulgirl and in 2014 for her album Burn Me Down.
Indigenous music of Canada encompasses a wide variety of musical genres created by Aboriginal Canadians. [1] Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by many First Nations, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Dene to the North, and the Innu and Mi'kmaq in the East and the Cree in the North.
The album's cultural context is also reflected in its cover art, which recreates a period scene of an anthropologist recording the songs; on the front cover, Dutcher is depicted sitting in the position of the singer being recorded, while on the back cover he is depicted sitting in the position of the anthropologist.
Dene music is music composed by Northern Athabaskan-speaking First Nations peoples - the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (Dogrib), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu. The term generally refers to traditional musical compositions and dances.
Miller was born in the community of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] Miller became interested in music in his teens and by the late 1990s began touring with Buffy Sainte-Marie. [3] In 2002, Miller released his debut album Music is the Medicine on Winnipeg's Arbor Records. [4]
Private, ceremonial music includes vocal songs with accompaniment on percussion, used to mark occasions like Midewivin ceremonies and Sun Dances. Traditionally, First Nations, being resourceful and creative, used the materials at hand to make their instruments for centuries before Europeans immigrated to Canada. [3]
Once he learned how to strum three chords, he began to write songs. He was around twelve years old at that time. From the age of fourteen, he attended secondary school in North Bay. In the 1980s, Martin was executive director of the Wawatay Native Communications Society, a First Nations broadcaster in Northern Ontario. [1]