5 FACTS AND FIGURES

David Friend takes a look at Jessie Reyez — the soulful voice leading the Juno nominees.

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Family is a bedrock Reyez was born in Toronto to parents who immigrated from Colombia, but that doesn’t mean her cultural roots aren’t intact. The singer pays tribute to her family’s origins in the music video for Great One, which trails her as she visits their homeland. It’s a spiritual reflection created after the deaths of her uncle and a childhood friend. Reyez walks among the marked graves of locals while seemingly chasing the ghost of a child and her journey winds up at a river where she’s baptized by some welcoming figures.