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      Speaking Out: SOCAN advocates politically for music creators

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      President’s Message: The accelerating pace of change

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      Building a career in France: challenges, sacrifices, dreams, reality

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      When emigrating to Toronto from Ibagué, Colombia in 2015, composing film and TV scores were the last thing Andrés Galindo Arteaga had in mind.  “I didn’t arrive with like a concise plan or idea of having a career as a film composer,” Galindo Arteaga says from his Scarborough studio. “I was still thinking primarily as a classical guitarist and musician.”  Fast-forward to today, and the prolific Canadian Screen Music Award ...

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