Juno Award winner Murray Porter is looking to add another statuette to his collection. He has been nominated in not one but two categories of the Western Canadian Music Awards.
Porter’s album Songs Lived & Life Played is nominated for Aboriginal recording of the year and blues recording of the year.
“I’m so thrilled and honoured to be nominated,” said Porter, and added, “Congratulations to all the other worthy nominees in all categories!”
Also nominated in the Aboriginal recording of the year category are Jerry Sereda with Turn The Country On, hip-hop artist Rellik with Mighty Mouth, Tanya Tagaq with her album Anuraaqtuq and supegroup Indian City’s Supernation.
Indian City was formed by Vince Fontaine, who is the co-founder of the multi-award-winning rock group Eagle & Hawk. He came up with this brainwave after seeing a music documentary on the '70s group the Fania All-Stars “They were the salsa/latin music group of New York City in the 1970s, and they went worldwide,” Fontaine told CBC Music earlier this year. “They had a core group, and they had guest singers and I thought, ‘gee, I could do that. I should do that.’” And that’s exactly what he did.
Fontaine called the group’s nomination “super cool.”
The 2012 Western Canadian Music Award winners will be presented September 30 in Regina, Sask., as part of the BreakOut West weekend.
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