Cara joins TV music contest

Five more music industry types have joined CTV’s upcoming music competition series The Launch. Bell Media says Culture Club alumnus Boy George, Canadian pop star Alessia Cara and Motley Crue founding member Nikki Sixx have signed on as mentors for the inaugural season of the show. The other new arrivals to the show are songwriter Julia Michaels and Grammy Award-winner and co-founder of country-pop duo Sugarland, Jennifer Nettles. In each episode of the Canadian series, five homegrown singers will perform a rendition of a new tune penned by a songwriter. The four mentors then pick two finalists to work with a renowned producer and perform the song again, with the winner becoming the singer of the track.