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Posted: Jan 12, 2021 8:48 PM CT | Last Updated: January 13
Curtis (Shingoose) Jonnie was a legendary musician, his friend and publicist Carolyn Sabourin said. He s pictured here performing at a Winnipeg Folk Festival workshop in 2016.(David Quiring/Winnipeg Folk Festival)
Longtime folk musician and activist Curtis (Shingoose) Jonnie died Tuesday morning at the age of 74 after testing positive for COVID-19, his daughter says.
Shingoose, who is Ojibway from Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation, had been living at the Southeast Personal Care Home in Winnipeg for the last decade, Nahanni Shingoose said from her home in Hamilton, Ont.
Her siblings all live in Ontario, and when her father s health began to deteriorate on Sunday, she said one of the most difficult things was being so far away.