Billy Joe Green

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Billy Joe Green is an Anishinaabe rock and blues musician from Canada. [1] He is most noted as a three-time Juno Award nominee for Indigenous Music Album of the Year, receiving nominations at the Juno Awards of 2002 for My Ojibway Experience: Strength & Hope, [2] at the Juno Awards of 2006 for Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll [3] and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for First Law of the Land. [4]

Green, a member of the Lac Seul First Nation from Kejick Bay, [1] was the son of David Green, a country musician. [5] A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he turned to music as an outlet for healing. [6] He launched his own musical career in the late 1960s with the band The Feathermen, although he did not record an album until Roughin' It in 1996. [5] He has since released eight further CDs. [5]

Green has also won two Indigenous Music Awards, and a Western Canadian Music Award. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Eugene Chadbourne, "Billy Joe Green". Allmusic .
  2. ↑ "Our Lady Peace hears Juno call; CTV pushing to raise the music bar for its April 14 show". Waterloo Region Record , February 12, 2002.
  3. ↑ "Nickelback still band to beat at Junos". Peterborough Examiner , April 1, 2006.
  4. ↑ "2009 Juno Awards nominees". The Globe and Mail , February 3, 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Winnipeg's Billy Joe Green – 50 Years on the Music Scene". Manitoba Post, December 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Cam Fuller, "A father's inspiration; Bluesman Billy Joe Green to release new CD this weekend", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , September 27, 2007.
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