SOCAN News
22nd Annual SOCAN Awards gala
Toronto, November 21, 2011
Canada’s music community gathered Nov. 21 at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto for the 2011 SOCAN Awards gala, honouring dozens of SOCAN members for their national and international achievements over the past year. Hosting duties this year were shared by Michelle Wright, Steven Page and Abdominal, who introduced appearances by winners from all genres of music, such as Deric Ruttan, Kardinal Offishall, Darcy James Argue, and Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard. The evening also included captivating live performances from The Trews, Lynn Miles, Wendell Ferguson, The Good Brothers, and 2011 ECHO Songwriting Prize winner Katie Moore, among others.
SOCAN president Earl Rosen kicked off the evening by remarking that while other parts of the music industry continued to face many challenges in 2010, SOCAN’s distributions to members and affiliates continued to grow. “But the rights of our members are threatened by changes in technology, in business, and in government policy,” Rosen went on. “SOCAN must take an even greater leadership role in protecting all the rights of our members. You will see this with a new communication strategy and a greater public visibility for SOCAN.” Topping the list of SOCAN Classic Award winners this year, for songs that have attained at least 100,000 radio plays, were Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo, with six honours for such enduring songs as “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet” and “Til I Am Myself Again.” Skip Prokop of Lighthouse was similarly feted for “Sunny Days” and “Pretty Lady,” as were Bruce Cockburn and the songwriting members of the groups Crowbar and the Beau Marks. The Stampeders were celebrated with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for a 40-year career that has spawned more than a dozen Top 10 hit songs and earned them four Juno Awards. Stampeders Rich Dodson and Kim Berly have already earned five SOCAN Classics Awards for such songs as “Carry Me” and the threemillion- selling, chart-topping “Sweet City Woman,” while fellow Stampeder Ronnie King has written such memorable hits as “Carryin’ On” and “Playin’ in the Band.” K’NAAN, who could not attend the gala, captured the International Achievement Award. When his song “Wavin’ Flag” was chosen as the anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup of Soccer,
K’NAAN travelled to 86 countries around the world to sing it. The song was also recorded as a benefit single for the victims of Haiti’s 2009 earthquake, featuring the vocal performances of Drake, Justin Bieber, Kardinal Offishall, Nelly Furtado and dozens of other Canadian music stars, raising more than a million dollars
for international aid. “Wavin’ Flag” charted within the Top Five in the U.K., the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Ireland, France, Scotland and Spain. The song was also honoured with a Pop/Rock Music Award at the ceremonies.
Prairie Oyster won the SOCAN National Achievement Award for a stellar career of more than 30 years as an awardwinning, chart-topping act. The band has won Country Group or Duo of the Year honours six times from both the Canadian Country Music Awards and the Juno Awards. They have four No. 1 country singles in Canada, with an additional 12 singles reaching the Canadian Country Top 10. Eight of their albums have been certified gold or platinum, and they’ve been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
Another of this year’s standout winners was Michael Bublé, one of the most successful singers in the world today, who won a Pop/Rock Music Award and the International Song Award for the 2010 hit “Haven’t Met You Yet.”
In recognition of businesses that demonstrate an understanding of the value of music to their business, this year’s Patron of Music Award went to eMusic.com Inc., an online music downloading company whose passion and enthusiasm for music parallels that of SOCAN itself.
The hosts of the 2011 SOCAN Awards in Toronto (left to right): Steven Page, Michelle Wright
and Abdominal.
The Hedley posse celebrates winning a Pop/Rock Award for the song “Perfect” (left to right):
Co-writer Dave Genn, Shawn Marino of Universal Music Publishing, Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard,
and Hedley manager Darren Gilmore.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Stampeders
(Rich Dodson, Kimball Meyer aka Kim Berly, Ronnie King)
NTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
K’NAAN
Prairie Oyster won the National Achievement Award for outstanding success over the course of their entire career.
NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Prairie Oyster
(Joan Besen, Russell deCarle, Keith Glass, John P. Allen, Dennis Delorme)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bob Ezrin
Veteran producer Bob Ezrin, left, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, and SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste
POP/ROCK MUSIC AWARDS
Michael Bublé
Amy Foster (BMI)
Alan Chang (BMI)
“Haven’t Met You Yet”
I’m the Last Man
Standing Music Inc.
Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd.
David Bendeth
Dave Genn
Jacob Hoggard
“Perfect”
Bridgeburner Music
Universal Music
Publishing Canada
Chad Kroeger
Mike Kroeger
Ryan Peake
Robert John “Mutt” Lange (PRS)
“This Afternoon”
Arm Your Dillo
Publishing Inc.
Black Diesel Music Inc.
Zero G Music inc.
Canadiana Music
K’NAAN
Jean Daval (SESAC)
Philip Lawrence (ASCAP)
Bruno Mars (ASCAP)
“Wavin’ Flag”
Universal Music Publishing Canada
COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS
Johnny Reid
Jeremy Campbell (BMI)
“I Believe in Angels”
Steven Lee Olsen
Bruce Wallace (BMI)
“Make Hay While the
Sun Shines”
ole
Roots 3 Music Inc.
Deric Ruttan
Jimmy Rankin
“Up All Night”
Doc’s Cabin Songs
Song Dog Music Company
INTERNATIONAL SONGAWARD
Michael Bublé
“Haven’t Met You Yet”
I’m the Last Man Standing Music Inc.
Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd.
DANCE MUSIC AWARD
Dan Kurtz
Martina Sorbara
“Pick Up the Phone”
Dragonette Publishing Inc.
Famous Virgins Inc.
URBAN MUSIC AWARD
Kardinal Offishall
Brian Gregory Heard (ASCAP)
Thiam Akon Aliaune (ASCAP)
“Body Bounce”
Kardinal Offishall took home an Urban Music Award for “Body Bounce, which he cowrote with Haze and Akon.
FOLK/ROOTS MUSIC AWARD
Sarah Harmer
CHILDREN’S MUSIC AWARD
Bobs & LoLo
(Robyn Hardy, Lorraine Pond)
JAN V. MATEJCEK NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARD
John Estacio
HAGOOD HARDY AWARD
Darcy James Argue
DOMESTIC NON-ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES MUSIC AWARD
Amin Bhatia
Ari Posner
Flashpoint
Pink Sky and
Avamar Music
DOMESTIC ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES MUSIC AWARD
Peter Coulman
Carl Lenox
David Tedesco
Busytown Mysteries
Cjar Music Publishing
ole
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SERIES MUSIC AWARD
Amin Bhatia
Ari Posner
Flashpoint
Pink Sky and Avamar Music
NEWS & SPORTS TELEVISION PROGRAMMING MUSIC AWARD
Murray Fleming
Marco Nazzicone
Sportsnet Connected
Rogers Sportsnet Inc.
DOMESTIC MADE FOR TELEVISION FILM MUSIC AWARD
Terry Frewer
Elijah
Joleyla Music
DOMESTIC FEATURE FILM MUSIC AWARD
Mychael Danna
Chloe
Soft Pedal
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC AWARD
Jeff Danna
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
1554363 Ontario Inc.
Soft Pedal
SPECIALTY TELEVISION PROGRAMMING MUSIC AWARD
Ed Franks
Cori Ashley
World Vision
Ivory Songs Publishing
2011 SOCAN CLASSIC AWARDS
Joseph Frechette
Ray Hutchinson
Michel Robitaille
Gilles Tailleur
«Clap Your Hands»
Star Quality Music
Jim Cuddy
Greg Keelor
“Five Days in May”
“Hasn’t Hit Me Yet”
“How Long”
“It Could Happen to You”
“Lost Together”
“Til I Am Myself Again”
Thunder Hawk Music
Kelly Jay Fordham
Roly Greenway
“Oh What a Feeling”
Southern Music Publishing
Co. Canada Ltd.
EMI April Music Canada Ltd.
Universal Music Publishing Canada
Skip Prokop
“Pretty Lady”
“Sunny Days”
ole
Bruce Cockburn
“Waiting for a Miracle”
Golden Mountain Music
PATRON OF MUSIC AWARD
eMusic.com Inc.
Montreal, November 16, 2011
Left to right: Annie Villeneuve, Denis Gougeon, Lynda Lemay and SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste.
SOCAN proudly saluted its members’ outstanding achievements at the lively 22nd annual SOCAN Awards, held Nov. 16 at the Hyatt Regency Montreal Hotel, with dynamic singer-songwriter Jean-François Breau as the host.
Awards were presented to the writers and publishers of the 10 most performed Francophone songs in Quebec in 2010. One of those winners, Dumas, introduced a new medium into the SOCAN Awards, reading his acceptance speech from his iPhone. A very young William Deslauriers, whose song “Recommencer à zéro” held the top position of the BDS Chart for a whopping 20 weeks, thanked all those whose inspiration he credited for his success: “Thank you to my very own Céline Dion, Fred Fortin, whom I met tonight!” Other recipients in the category included Annie Villeneuve, David Jalbert, Nicola Ciccone, Lynda Lemay, Jonathan Painchaud and the Respectables’ Stephan Dussault and Sébastien Plante.
Ten popular Quebec songs became SOCAN Classics, and their writers — Richard Séguin, Plume Latraverse, Serge Fiori, Laurence Jalbert (and her co-writers Guy Rajotte, Yves Savard and Marc Gillett), Jean Millaire and Marjo, Pierre Létourneau (and his co-writers Yves Martin, Angelo Finaldi and Johnny Hovaness Hagopian)— celebrated the fact that their songs had received more than 25,000 radio plays. As he collected his impressive three awards, Séguin stressed the importance for music creators to speak with a unified voice against today’s wholesale copyright infringement. “The fight is just beginning,” he warned.
Receiving this year’s International Song award, Corneille and his co-writer Sofia de Medeiros echoed a theme that resounded in many of the evening’s acceptance speeches — their gratitude for SOCAN and its employees.
Luc Plamondon and Lise Aubut presented Diane Juster with the Special Achievement Award, complimenting her on the success of her career. Winners in the film and television music categories included Leon Aronson, Paul-Étienne Côté, James Gelfand, Philippe Leduc, Anthony Rozankovic, Daniel Scott and Kevin Tighe. Rozankovic was pleased to have had an opportunity to meet one of his idols, Plume Latraverse, earlier in the evening: “I think ‘Les Pauvres’ is probably the most beautiful Quebec song ever written,” he said. “It made me cry.” He also paid tribute to one of his former teachers, Gilles Tremblay, winner of this year’s Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award, and to another popular musician who had inspired him, Michel Pagliaro. The 2011 Hagood Hardy Music Award was presented to the world-renowned Quebec jazzman François Bourassa.
I-Notcz and Ricky J received the Anglophone Song award, while the concert promoter Evenko, represented by its vicepresident Louise Laliberté, won the Patron
of Music Award. “Without you, the songwriters,” she said, “Evenko would not succeed.” Arcade Fire unfortunately could not attend to collect the International Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Stéphane Venne, a towering songwriter whose works have been performed by Quebec’s top artists.
The gala included a stellar performance by Galaxie, whose singer Olivier Langevin was the 2011 winner of SOCAN’s Prix ÉCHO de la chanson. A dazzling medley
by Marjo and a tribute to Stéphane Venne by Brigitte Boisjoli and Nicole Martin completed the program.
Front row, left to right: SOCAN AV Account Executive Kathleen Mercier, Daniel Scott, Anthony Rozankovic, Leon Aronson; Back row: AV Account Executive Lyne Lanoue, Paul-Étienne Côté, Kevin Tighe, Philippe Leduc, James Gelfand and AV Account Executive Karine Melchior.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Stéphane Venne
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Arcade Fire
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Diane Juster
POP SONGS
Dumas
“Le bonheur (rien ne nous arrêtera)”
Éditions La Tribu
Lynda Lemay
“Cache-cache”
Les Éditions Hallynda enr.
Kevin Parent
“Cachemire”
Les Productions des Trois
Têtus enr.
Vincent Vallières
“Entre partout et nulle part”
Éditions Trente Arpents
William Deslauriers
“Recommencer tout à zéro”
Productions J inc.
Marc Dupré
Annie Villeneuve
“Rien de mieux à faire”
Les Éditions Annie Villeneuve inc.
Les Éditions Dama
Les Éditions Groupe
Entourage
Éloi Painchaud
Jonathan Painchaud
“Si t’es vivant”
Les Éditions Sphère inc.
Nicola Ciccone
“Tu m’aimes quand-même”
Stéphane Beaudin
Stephan Dussault
Sébastien Plante
“La Vie c’t’une job”
Éditions Respectables
Les Éditions Sphère inc.
David Jalbert
“Voyage”
Les Éditions DAP
INTERNATIONAL SONG
Corneille
Sofia de Medeiros
“En attendant”
C-Way Music Inc.
ANGLOPHONE SONG
I-Notchz
Ricky J
“Whatta Night”
JAN V. MATEJCEK NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARD
Gilles Tremblay
HAGOOD HARDY MUSIC AWARD
François Bourassa
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION MUSIC AWARD
Leon Aronson
Paul-Étienne Côté
Anthony Rozankovic
DOMESTIC TELEVISION MUSIC AWARD
Philippe Leduc
Daniel Scott
Kevin Tighe
FILM MUSIC
James Gelfand
SOCAN CLASSIC MUSIC AWARDS
Richard Séguin
“Avec toi”
“Les Bouts de papier”
“Sous les cheminées”
Les Éditions de la
Roche Éclatée
Plume Latraverse
“Bobépine”
Les Éditions Hobo enr.
Richard Séguin
Serge Fiori
“Ça fait du bien”
Les Éditions de la
Roche Éclatée
Les Éditions Sang Latin
Marc Gillett
Laurence Jalbert
Yves Savard
“En courant”
Avenue Éditorial
Les Éditions Samuel
Michèle
Marjolène Morin
Jean Millaire
“Impoésie”
Musique Thésis
Angelo Finaldi
Johnny Hovaness
Hagopian
Pierre Létourneau
“Laisse-moi partir”
Les Éditions Iohann enr.
Les Éditions du store
ouvert
Pierre Létourneau
Yves Martin
“Oui paraît-il”
Earth Born Music Pub.
Les Éditions Iohann enr.
Laurence Jalbert
Guy Rajotte
“Tomber”
Avenue Éditorial
Éditorial Avenue
PATRON OF MUSIC
Evenko
Richard Séguin, winner of a Classic Award, and Dumas, winner of a Pop Award.
