Boi-1da and Sarah Harmer to be celebrated at 2025 Juno Awards
Grammy-winning Toronto producer Boi-1da will be receiving the International Achievement Award, which recognizes artists "who have attained exemplary success on the world stage," according to CARAS. Boi-1da has been crafting hits for nearly two decades, and produced tracks on Drake's first mixtape, 2006's Room for Improvement.
He's since become one of the in-house producers on Drake's OVO label, and executive produced the rapper's acclaimed and Juno-winning 2015 mixtape, If You're Reading This, It's Too Late. Boi-1da has also worked with Jay-Z, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj.
"Being recognized with the International Achievement Award at the Junos is a huge honour," Boi-1da said via press release. "Canada has always been home, and its music scene shaped me into the producer I am today. To be able to take that foundation and contribute to music on a global scale means everything. I hope this inspires the next generation of Canadian artists and producers to dream big and know that the world is listening."
WATCH | The official video for Drake's 'God's Plan,' co-produced by Boi-1da:
Juno-winning singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer will receive the Humanitarian Award at the 2025 Junos for "using her voice to engage her audiences and peers in important environmental and human rights issues," according to CARAS.
Harmer has long weaved environmental work into her musical legacy, reaching at least as far back as 2005's "Escarpment Blues," a song that kickstarted her years-long fight to protect the Niagara Escarpment, where she grew up. That same year Harmer launched a tour titled I Love the Escarpment, to promote the conservation group Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, which she co-founded. The tour was turned into a concert and documentary film that shares a name with the song. The singer has also been involved with pipeline protests and with community and environmental groups including Students on Ice and Reform Gravel Mining Coalition.
WATCH | The video for Sarah Harmer's 'Escarpment Blues':
"I truly appreciate this honour. I accept on behalf of all the people who volunteer their time to speak up to protect land, water and the web of life in their communities, and beyond," Harmer said via press release. "Musicians who use their platforms to amplify these struggles give a huge boost to the collective fight. Now more than ever we need to use our powers to build community and respect the natural world that underpins our lives."
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