Posted: Jun 09, 2021 7:30 AM CT | Last Updated: June 9
The singer from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ont., is now working on a personal project - an album of Indigenous music, or storytelling songs, as she calls them. She is also recording a new blues album.(True North Records)
Ojibwe singer Crystal Shawanda says she was shocked and surprised to win for Best Blues Album of the Year at this year s JUNO awards and feels like she s living a full-circle moment.
The 37-year-old from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ont., won for her album,
Church House Blues, at the awards broadcast on CBC Sunday.
A full list of winners from this year’s 50th anniversary Juno Awards:Album of the Year: "After Hours" by The WeekndArtist of the Year: The WeekndBreakthrough Artist of the Year: JP SaxePop Album of . . .