Canucks competing for awards
Canadians from across the musical spectrum are up for Grammys on Sunday.
Toronto’s Drake tops all Canucks with eight nominations, while Stratford, Ont.-native Justin Bieber garnered four nods. Both are up for album of the year.
The only other Canadian act with multiple Grammy nominations this year is Vancouver electronic band Bob Moses. The duo of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance are up for best dance recording (Tearing Me Up) and best remix of the same song.
Bob Moses has Canadian competition in both categories. Toronto’s Kai (as featured artist on Never Be Like You by Flume) is up for best dance recording, while producer James Teez, who grew up in Quebec and Alberta, competes for top remix. Teej and Timo Maas reinvented Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Five by Paul McCartney & Wings.
Canucks will also go head-tohead for the best-R&B-song Grammy. Mississauga artist PartyNextDoor is nominated for Come and See Me (featuring Drake). The song was written by PartyNextDoor, Drake and Noah Shebib of Toronto. Also, Brampton, Ont., performer Tory Lanez is up for the song Luv.
Toronto’s Nineteen85 scored a Grammy nod as producer of the year (non-classical), while Vancouver big band Darcy James Argue’s Secret So- ciety is nominated for best large jazz ensemble album (Real Enemies).
Alberta band Northern Cree are up for best regional roots music album (It’s a Cree Thing), and will also perform at the pre-televised Grammy festivities.
Newmarket, Ont., songwriter Steven Lee Olsoen co-wrote Keith Urban’s Blue Ain’t Your Colour, nominated for best country song.
Montreal conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin, along with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Vocalensemble Rastatt, could win the best-opera Grammy for their recording of Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro.
Finally, the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble is nominated for best chamber music/small ensemble performance (Fitelberg: Chamber Works). Postmedia News