Kanen is the stage name of Karen Pinette-Fontaine (born January 5, 1999), an

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singer-songwriter from Uashat-Maliotenam, Quebec. She is most noted as a Felix Award nominee for Indigenous Artist of the Year at the

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. Pinette-Fontaine launched her musical career as a member of Florent Vollant's Nikamu Mamuitun collective in 2019, alongside Marcie Michaud-Gagnon, Joëlle St-Pierre, Chloé Lacasse,

Scott-Pien Picard Scott-Pien Picard is an Innu singer-songwriter from Uashat-Maliotenam, Quebec.Anne-Marie Yvon"Un pas de plus dans la carrière de Scott-Pien Picard" Ici Radio-Canada Espace Autochtones, December 14, 2020. He is most noted as a three-time Felix Awa ...

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, Cédrik St-Onge and Ivan Boivin, and released her self-titled debut EP that year. She competed in the 2020 edition of the Francouvertes music competition. She has also been associated with the

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filmmaking collective, for which she directed the short film ''Battles (Batailles)''"Les réalisatrices autochtones à l'honneur"
Ici Radio-Canada, March 6, 2017. and appeared as herself in

Sonia Bonspille Boileau Sonia Boileau is a Canadian First Nations filmmaker belonging to the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Biography Sonia Bonspille-Boileau was raised between Oka, where her French-Canadian father hails from, and Kanesatake, the comm ...

's documentary film ''Wapikoni''.

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