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Vote Now for WIM Canada Artist of the Year
Alessia Cara
This honour would spotlight Alessia at a pivotal moment in her career as she enters a bold new artistic chapter with Love & Hyperbole. Recognition from Women in Music would not only celebrate her remarkable accomplishments to date, but also amplify her voice as a role model for young artists navigating their own paths toward confidence and self-expression.
Elevating Alessia through this recognition would further strengthen her platform as a globally respected songwriter and performer, helping her reach new audiences while reinforcing her impact as a leader, collaborator, and champion of empowering, emotionally resonant music.
Province: Ontario
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
Allison Russell
Receiving this Honour would amplify Allison Russell's powerful work as an artist, advocate, and community builder. While her accomplishments already reflect extraordinary global impact, this recognition would further elevate the essential conversations she leads around equity, survivorship, and collective healing within the music industry. It would also expand visibility for the initiatives she co-founded - Once and Future Sounds and Love Rising - helping them reach and support even more marginalized voices.
Most meaningfully, this Honour would reinforce Allison's mission to use music as a force for liberation and connection, providing her with an even larger platform to inspire change, empower emerging creators, and continue shaping a more inclusive future for women across the industry.
Province: Quebec
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
Begonia
Alexa is about to embark on a major year of touring, including:
February 2026 - European Tour supporting The Bros. Landreth (14 shows across France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark)
April 2026 - UK & Ireland Tour supporting The Bros. Landreth (13 shows across the United Kingdom and Ireland)
Summer 2026 - International and Canadian festival appearances
October - Dec 2026 - Continued touring in North America and Canada
Summer 2027 - Continued international and Canadian festival appearances
Receiving this honour would provide immediate and meaningful support in promoting these dates, particularly across Canada.
This honour would also bolster efforts surrounding her new album Fantasy Life (released October 2025). Begonia's label and marketing team are actively working to continue pushing the release throughout Alexa's packed tour schedule, and this recognition would strengthen their ability to secure features, radio play, interviews, reviews, and other key promotional opportunities.
Additionally, this award would help drive increases in streaming, sales, and fan discovery. This honour would draw renewed attention to Alexa's full catalog, creating sustained, long-term impact for an artist with an already growing and compelling body of work.
Province: Manitoba
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
Elisapie This honour would further amplify Elisapie's lifelong mission to share and celebrate her Inuk identity, her language, and her northern heritage through her art. Recognition from Women in Music Canada would help elevate the visibility of her ongoing work, both as an acclaimed singer-songwriter and as a creator who brings Indigenous stories to national audiences through documentaries and Le Grand Solstice.
Province: Quebec
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
Jessie Reyez
This Honour would further amplify Jessie Reyez's powerful voice and the impact she already makes across music, culture, and representation. While she has achieved global success, recognition from Women in Music would shine an even brighter light on the values that define her career, vulnerability, empowerment, and fearless truth-telling. It would help broaden the reach of her advocacy for women, immigrants, and marginalized communities, giving her an elevated platform to continue challenging industry norms and uplifting others through her art.
Additionally, this Honour would support the momentum of her new album PAID IN MEMORIES and her upcoming world tour, reinforcing her position as one of the most influential and boundary-pushing artists of her generation. By celebrating her achievements, this recognition would also signal to emerging creators that authenticity and courage can pave the way to global impact, something Jessie embodies at every stage of her career.
Province: Ontario
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
Tia Wood
This Honour would elevate greatly Tia Woo at a pivotal moment in her transition from digital creator to mainstream recording artist and international performer.
This generous recognition from Women in Music Canada would:
1. Strengthen her visibility within the music industry in both Canada and the United States.
2. Support and amplify her ongoing releases of new music under Sony Music Canada.
Increase touring and festival opportunities internationally.
3. Expand her platform to inspire Indigenous youth globally.
4. Validate her leadership as an Indigenous woman breaking barriers in global pop music.
5. An award of this caliber would amplify Tia's momentum and support her rise as one of the next internationally recognized Indigenous musical artists and songwriters. It would also send a very encouraging message to Indigenous musicians all over Canada, in an important time for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, where a cultural movement and artistic resurgence is occurring all over the country.
Province: Alberta
Categorie(s): Artist of the Year - Presented by Amazon Music
Submission Type: Written
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