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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
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Beatrice Deer has been writing songs for more than 25 years. The Montréal-based singer has been recognized by the Canadian Indigenous Music Awards, named Inuit Artist of the Year at the Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards, and earned a Canadian Screen Award for co-scoring Giant Bear, an animated short based on an Inuit folktale. And yet, when she contemplated making an album based on the legends of ...
Karl Gagnon thrives on chaos.
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The 14th annual Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) were presented to 10 SOCAN members between May 29 and May 31, 2026, in Toronto, for their work in screen composing or songwriting for the screen. The 2026 winners are: TELEVISION Best Original Music, Animation Erica Procunier – Thomas & Friends: The Christmas Letter Express Best Original Music, Drama Peter Peter – Heated Rivalry Best Original Music, Comedy Caleb Chan, ...
Sean Hogan and Lakeland Heart Publishing earned a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award for “I’d Rather Have You,” performed by Seneca Shagnappi for reaching #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown Chart the week of Feb. 16, 2026. “I’d Rather Have You” performed by Seneca Shaganappi and awarded to Sean Hogan and Lakeland Heart Publishing ached #1 on the Indigenous ...
Logan Staats’ “Medicine Wheel” has earned a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award for reaching #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown for the week of March 16, 2026. Staats was presented the award by SOCAN’s Houtan Hodania after his show at Toronto’s iconic Horseshoe Tavern on May 6. SOCAN congratulates Logan on this great achievement!
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Story by Karina Moldovan | September 24, 2019
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