Leonard Cohen and The Weeknd win top trophies at Juno Awards
Veteran musician Leonard Cohen and R&B star The Weeknd took home the Juno Awards' biggest honors during Canada's music prizegiving on Sunday (15Mar15).
Singer/songwriter Cohen nabbed the Album of the Year award for Popular Problems, while The Weeknd picked up the Artist of the Year title at the ceremony, which took place at Hamilton, Ontario's FirstOntario Center.
The win was the second prize for the R&B star, who claimed the
R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for his hit Often during
Saturday's (14Mar15) gala for various album and technical
awards.
However it was dance star Kiesza who took home the most Junos this
year (15) - she added Breakthrough Artist of the Year to her
Saturday night honors for Dance Recording of the Year for Sound of
a Woman and Video of the Year for Hideaway.
Double winners Magic! were named Breakthrough Group of the Year and
also picked up Single of the Year honors for Rude, while Arkells
were crowned Group of the Year and picked up the Rock Album of the
Year prize for High Noon.
Michael Buble was given the coveted Fan Choice Award, marking his
12th career Juno Award, and Alanis Morissette was inducted into the
2015 Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
The Ironic singer closed the ceremony with a medley of hits from
her Grammy Award-winning album Jagged Little Pill, which was
released 20 years ago.
Also taking the stage to perform were winners Kiesza, Arkells,
Magic! and The Weeknd, as well as Deadmau5, Shawn Mendes, Sam
Roberts Band, and Hedley, whose lead singer Jacob Hoggard hosted
the ceremony.