Music

Kevin “Jedi” Barton

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TweetDirector / Content Producer / Brand Stylist, Toronto, ON. Born: Scarborough, ON. Kevin “Jedi” Barton created the largest Urban Music department at Universal Music Group Canada. “Universal Urban” marketed and promoted high-profile artists such as, Eminem, Jay-Z, Method Man & Redman, DMX, Brian McKnight, Shaggy, Mary J. Blige, Lil Jon, Snoop & the EastSidaz, Common, [...]

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Muhtadi Thomas

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TweetPercussionist / Founder / Artistic Director, Muhtadi Drumming Festival, Toronto, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago. Muhtadi Thomas immigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago in 1974. As one of Canada’s premier percussionists, Muhtadi plays djembe, bongos, congas, timbales, steel pan, and a wide assortment of other percussion instruments. He has performed extensively, both nationally and [...]

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Dr. Afua Cooper

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TweetPoet / Author / Historian, Toronto, ON. Born: Jamaica. Dr. Afua Cooper is a celebrated and award-winning poet, author, historian, curator, performer, cultural worker, and recording artist. Her poems have been anthologized in national and international publications, and translated in several languages, and she has published five books of poetry, including the award-winning Memories Have [...]

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Luther Brown

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TweetChoreographer / Artistic Director / Founder / Owner, Do Dat Entertainment & Judge, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Los Angeles, CA. Born: Kingston, Jamaica. Once every couple of years, there emerges one or two individuals who come about that creatively raise the level of the playing field in their respective industry. Their peers are amazed [...]

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Dr. Oliver Jones

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TweetJazz Pianist / Organist / Arranger / Composer, Justin Time Records, Montreal, QC. Born: Montreal, QC. Dr. Oliver Jones is one of Canada’s‚ best-known jazz pianists. Born and raised in Saint-Henri, a predominantly working class area of Montreal, he lived several blocks from Oscar Peterson. As a boy, he would sit on Oscar’s porch, listening [...]

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Eddie Bullen

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TweetPianist / Composer / Songwriter / Arranger / Producer, Thunder Dome Sounds Studio, Toronto, ON. Born: Grenada. Since his move from Grenada to Canada in 1980, Juno award-winning producer, Eddie Bullen has worked with major Canadian, Caribbean and American artists like jazz singer Ansem Douglas, Byron Lee, David Rudder, Liberty Silver, FeFe Dobson, Deborah Cox, [...]

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Ranee Lee

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Tweet Jazz Vocalist / Musician / TV Host / Author, Justin Time Records & Educator, University of Laval & The Schulich School of Music of McGill University, Montreal QC. Born: U.S.A. Ranee Lee is a Brooklyn-born jazz performer who sings, acts, dances, and who has become renowned for her conception, development and performance of Dark Divas, [...]

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Junetta Jamerson

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TweetGospel Artist / Founder & Director of the Black Pioneer Heritage Singers & Youth Empowerment Manager, Edmonton, AB. Born: Edmonton, AB. Junetta Jamerson is a fifth-generation descendant of a very musical Black-American family that settled in Wildwood, Alberta in 1911 (her father, LeVero Carter, is considered the father of gospel music in Edmonton). As a [...]

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Liberty Silver

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TweetSinger / Songwriter, Toronto, ON. Born: USA. Liberty Silver is a multi award-winning singer/songwriter who made her professional singing debut at age 12, when she opened for reggae legend, Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. She was a contestant for seven weeks on the popular TV show, Star Search, [...]

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Dr. Kenneth Montague

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TweetDental Surgeon, Dr. Kenneth Montague & Associates / Founder, The Wedge, Toronto, ON. Born: Windsor, ON. A graduate of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto, Dr. Kenneth Montague is a full-time dentist, as well as an art collector and curator. Since opening in 1992, Dr. Montague’s dental office has grown from an [...]

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Karen Burke

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TweetProfessor of Music, York University & Artistic Director / Conductor, Toronto Mass Choir, Toronto, ON. Born: Brantford, ON. Karen Burke is a Professor of Music at York University and the co-founder, artistic director and conductor of the Toronto Mass Choir, a unique Canadian contemporary gospel choir which has been recording and touring over the past [...]

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Brainerd Blyden-Taylor

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TweetFounder / Artistic Director / Conductor, The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Toronto, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago.   Brainerd Blyden-Taylor is the founder, artistic director and conductor of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada’s first professional chamber choir dedicated to the creation and performanceof Afrocentric music of all styles. Born in Trinidad & Tobago, Brainerd immigrated to Canada [...]

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Satori (a.k.a. Jeannette McGruder) Shakoor

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TweetActor / Singer / Writer / Comedienne, Toronto, ON / Detroit, MI. Born: USA (became a Canadian citizen in 2008). Satori Shakoor is a veteran of live performance. As a singer, she recorded and performed with The Brides of Funkenstein, as well as multiple Grammy Award winners David Foster, Sly Stone, Luther Vandross and George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic. [...]

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