Teacher wins German music award

A former Kelowna teacher has won a German hip-hop music award.

Lorraine Baron was known locally as a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence recipient, a teacher at Mount Boucherie, KLO or Rutland Secondary, and a mathematics teaching-methods professor at UBC Okanagan.

Now living on Vancouver Island, Baron got into music and formed a partnership online with Gunnar Nanuk from Ludenscheid, Germany. Their collaboration, “Get Out”, which encourages people to leave abusive relationships, recently won a best-studio production award.

More recently, Baron has produced and is about to release an all-Canadian bilingual album, according to a news release.