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Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and
Plume, Banx & Ranx, Ginette Reno, Nathalie Bonin, Roxane Bruneau, Mathieu Brisset
Currently lobbying government on several key issues
Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts
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Legal considerations for creators
What are the differences?
The export strategies of Klô Pelgag, Fredz, Aliocha, Patrick Watson and Billy du Page
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Somaya was going through it during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Who among us wasn’t?) The Gatineau-born singer and songwriter had decided to move to Montréal in 2021 to pursue a creative life. A piano player from the age of six, and singing since she practically started speaking as a child, she wouldn’t become a songwriter until her pre-teen years. But the move, and perhaps the isolation of the pandemic, helped Somaya forge a musical path that led ...
Or four reasons to not miss it next year.
Here are 11 albums from Québec and Acadia that we’re looking forward to discovering.
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Warm and reassuring, “Holding On” captures the hope and exhilaration that come with the early days of falling in love.
Québec’s reputation in the film world is well established, and the work of its screen composers has played no small part in that.
Don Amero has earned a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award for his track “Spare Change,” written in collaboration with Douglas Romanow, for reaching the top of the Indigenous Music Countdown on Feb. 9th, 2026. The award was presented to Amero and Romanow by SOCAN’s Houtan Hodania. SOCAN congratulates the songwriters on this great achievement!
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