POP Montréal Music
Aysanabee
Sandy Lake First Nation
Aysanabee (Ace-in-abbey) is a two-time JUNO award-winning Oji-Cree artist. With a swirling mix of indie, soul, and electronic sounds and pulse-quickening fingerpicking, his music featured on his 2023 EP Here and Now and his 2022 debut LP Watin is both hypnotic and melodious. Aysanabee made history as the first Indigenous artist to win the JUNO Awards for Alternative Album of the Year and the coveted Songwriter of the Year, for Here and Now.
He is the first Indigenous artist to hit Number 1 on Mediabase Canada’s Alternative Rock chart.He has been short-listed for the 2023 Polaris Prize and performed close to 300 shows on major stages, festivals, and venues across Canada and globally.
