Jean-Pierre Ferland, Plume Latraverse and Ginette Reno will receive Distinction Awards at the Montreal SOCAN Gala, which will be hosted by drag queen Barbada.
The 33rd edition of this presentation of statuettes, which will take place on May 7, at TOHU, in Montreal. A hundred prizes will be awarded to honor the talent of creators and music publishers in La Belle Province. And it will be a face-to-face return after two years of online celebrations.
Among the Distinctions Awards, Jean-Pierre Ferland will receive the SOCAN Cultural Footprint Award “for his hymn to the hope and emancipation of a people “A little higher, a little further””. The SOCAN Tribute Prize will go to Ginette Reno, the one who often gave us chills by singing this piece by Ferland. Plume Latraverse will accept the Prix Excellence for his long career.
The SOCAN Classic Awards will also celebrate the following songs, well known to Quebecers: “Amalgame” by Les Respectables, “Balade à Toronto” by Jean Leloup, “La Désise” by Daniel Boucher, “On jase de toi” by Noir Silence , “Because we come from afar” by Corneille, “Point de mire” by Ariane Moffatt, “Dream better” by Daniel Bélanger and “Toune d’automne” by the Cowboys Fringants.
The Songwriter Prizes will be awarded to two tandems, namely Roxane Bruneau and Mathieu Brisset as well as Banx & Ranx.
The SOCAN Music Partner Award will be offered jointly to Télé-Québec and Sphère Média to highlight “their ongoing commitment” to the program “Belle et Bum”, the 20th season of which aired this year on antenna of Télé-Québec.
The Image Music Composer Prize will be awarded to Nathalie Bonin and Cristobal Tapia de Veer. Composer Nathalie Bonin’s work shone in the award-winning documentary ‘Women Warriors: The Voices of Change’, while multi-instrumentalist Cristobal Tapia de Veer stood out for his work for the second season of the critically acclaimed series ‘ The White Lotus”. He even won a Primetime Emmy Award for this project.
The Publisher Prize will go to Éditions Bloc Notes Musique and the International Prize will highlight the work of Montreal music producers Demy & Clipz, who are notably behind the worldwide success “La Corriente”, by Puerto Rican rapper and actor Bad Bunny. The piece has accumulated more than a billion plays on platforms around the world.