Leonard Sumner
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| origin = Little Saskatchewan First Nation, Canadian
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Leonard Sumner is an Anishinaabe singer-songwriter from Canada, whose music blends aspects of country, folk and hip-hop music.[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/despair-and-resilience-of-indigenous-youth-in-the-face-of-a-suicide-crisis-1.3495877/leonard-sumner-s-fusion-of-country-and-hip-hop-rooted-in-family-and-community-1.3496429 "Leonard Sumner's fusion of country and hip-hop rooted in family and community"]. Unreserved, March 18, 2016.
Music career
He is most noted for his 2018 album Standing in the Light, which received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.[https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/shawn-mendes-and-the-weeknd-lead-the-2019-juno-nominations-1.4992669 "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations"]. CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
He released his debut album Rez Poetry in 2013,[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/scene/leonard-sumner-on-rez-poetry-and-idle-no-more-1.2325904 "Leonard Sumner on Rez Poetry and Idle No More"]. CBC News Manitoba, December 3, 2013. and followed up with Standing in the Light in 2018.[https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/anishinaabe-musical-force-back-in-the-light-477231863.html "Anishinaabe musical force back in the light"]. Winnipeg Free Press, March 19, 2018.
Awards and nominations
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|Indigenous Music Album of the Year |Standing in the Light |{{nom}} |
Personal life
A member of the Little Saskatchewan First Nation in Manitoba, Sumner has been based in Winnipeg since 2011. He is married to writer Tasha Spillett-Sumner. She gave birth to their daughter, Isabella, in March 2020.{{Cite news|last=Wasney|first=Eva|date=2021-04-21|title=Singer-songwriter revisits his hip-hop roots on new album that plumbs his past|language=en-CA|work=Winnipeg Free Press|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/what-goes-around-574250672.html|access-date=2021-05-15}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.leonardsumner.com/}}
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Category:Canadian male singer-songwriters
Category:Canadian folk singer-songwriters
Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters
Category:Canadian Ojibwe people
Category:First Nations male singers
Category:Singers from Manitoba
Category:21st-century Canadian male singers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
Category:21st-century First Nations musicians
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