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2001 Juno Awards Highlights | |
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Another year of Canadian music excellence has come and gone, forcing both passive and dedicated music lovers to take notice of the best acts, artists and ensembles nation-wide. Hosted by This Hour Has 22 Minute's Rick Mercer and opened by boy-band-turned-rock-guru's The Moffatts, the show captured the best, and most entertaining of Canada's diverse spectrum of talent.
Despite the Canuck overtones of the broadcast, it was an American act that first rouse the crowd. Two members of the massively popular 'N Synce briefly came onstage (to many teenage shrieks) to help introduce Nelly Furtado's live montage of her hit "I'm Like A Bird" and "Turn Off The Lights". Whoa Nelly! would prove to be the theme of the night as Canada chose to honour the Victoria, British Columbia native with multiple awards.
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What do you think of Canada's musical talent. Do you think our best known artists, such as Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette, adequately reflect the breadth of talent that exists from coast-to-coast? Or do you think that much of our best talent go, for the most part, virtually ignored.
Discuss these issues, along with other issues at our Juno Music Award message board. Do you like last year's winning selections? What do you think about this years nominees?
Read the messages and post here
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BEST SINGLE - Nelly Furtado "I'm Like A Bird"
BEST ALBUM - Barenaked Ladies "Maroon"
BEST FEMALE ARTIST - Jann Arden
BEST MALE ARTIST - Neil Young
BEST GROUP - Barenaked Ladies
BEST NEW GROUP - Nickleback
BEST NEW SOLO ARTIST - Nelly Furtado
BEST SONGWRITER - Nelly Furtado
BEST POP/ADULT ALBUM - Barenaked Ladies "Maroon"
BEST SELLING ALBUM (FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC) - Eminem "The Marshall Mathers LP"
BEST ROCK ALBUM - The Tragically Hip "Music @ Work"
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Award Winners @ CanEHdian | |
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