KATIE rose to fame following her participation in South Korean television singing competition show
K-pop Star 4. After her performance of Where You Need To Be, the singer garnered 4 million views on South Korea s video-sharing site Naver TV Cast and ultimately won the season. In 2019, she released her debut EP
Log with a remixed version of Remember featuring Ty Dolla Sign. We are pleased to represent these amazing two artists, KATIE and [redacted], showing our commitment to the K Pop genre, as we continue to grow in this rapidly evolving sector, said
Jon Pleeter, Vice President of Concerts for ICM Partners.
Apart from that, there’s not a weak album on the list. And the comics hail from across the country, so there’s that.
Horse Power
Vancouver-based comic
Jacob Samuel is technically one of the best stand-ups of the bunch. He’s perfected his wise, snarky delivery, and his material feels uniquely his own. But in
Horse Power (800 Pound Gorilla Records), something about his act seems too exact, almost chilly; there’s no warmth, nothing to endear him to us.
That’s not to say he isn’t clever. The way he deconstructs the cliché dating advice “there are lots of fish in the sea” to comment on the environment is sharp. And you get a good sense of his personality by the way he analyzes the word “efficient”.
Reviews of this year’s Juno-nominated comedy albums
Matt Wright and Nick Nemeroff head up a strong list of hilarious, but not very diverse, comedy albums By Glenn Sumi
Mar 12, 2021
There s not a weak link among this year s Juno nominees for comedy album, so it s too bad the list lacks diversity.
There’s a glaring lack of diversity in this year’s nominees for best Juno comedy album. All five comics are white, and four are straight dudes. Where’s Brandon Ash-Mohammed’s Capricornication or Nick Reynoldson’s I’ll Be Fine (both reviewed here), or Rebecca Kohler’s Guilty And Disgusting, or Michelle Shaunessy’s Botoxic?
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The announcement in December that three of the five Grammy nominees for best children s album were asking to have their names withdrawn from the ballot reverberated through the industry, bringing attention not just to the Recording Academy s ongoing struggles with diversity, but also to music too often overlooked by anyone except for children and their parents. In a year marked by the most powerful social justice protests in nearly a half century a year that saw the Recording Academy pledge to create a more diverse and inclusive membership and voting process all of the nominees were white, and all but one of them were men. This even though there had been no lack of notable children s music releases from artists of color in 2020.