THE POLARIS PRIZE 2025
Honouring Canadian greats, unknowns and everything in between
JEREMY DUTCHER’S MOTEWOLONUWOK
Second album features beautiful music in service of indigenous language and struggle – and a few songs in English
DEBBY FRIDAY WINS THE 2023 POLARIS PRIZE
Good Luck is a fierce and genre-defying amalgam of electropunk, noise, synth, industrial techno and hip-hop
PIERRE KWENDERS WINS POLARIS PRIZE 2022
“…there is hope, there is a place to live and dream and be yourself .”
CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON’S ALPHA
Strong singer displays cool remove and insight on her debut album
BACKXWASH WINS THE 2020 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE
The winning album – God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It – makes her the first transgender artist to take the prize
WITCH PROPHET
“A soundscape of vocal layers, loops, raps and harmonies on a bed of hip-hop, jazz and soul-inspired beats.”
THE MODERN FILIPINO SOUND OF PANTAYO
The queer, diasporic Filipinas call their sound lo fi R&B gong punk
KAYTRANADA’S BUBBA
Bubba is the artist’s second album nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. His 2016 debut album, 99.9% won the award that year
