SOCAN members Duffmusiq and Richard Tichelman have both won second-place prizes in the genre categories of the 2021 Unsigned Only song competition. Duffmusiq took the honours in the Blues category, for his song “I Can’t Get Over Losing You (AKA Ordinary Fool),” while Tichelman won in the Screenshot category, for his song “The One.”
In addition to these genre winners, 16 other SOCAN members, or acts featuring SOCAN members, also earned honorable mentions in their respective categories, including triple recognition for solo artist Madison Olds, and five honourees in the country category. These winners are:
Adult Contemporary (AC)
Madison Olds, “Cliche Of Falling In Love”
Payge Owen, “Still”
Americana
Kyle McKearney, “Devil Water”
Blues
No Trombones, “Walk The Walk”
Country
Mike Whiteside, “3 AM”
Alessia Cohle, “All Good”
Carson Janik, “Better Than That”
Alexa Goldie, “Not My Own”
Trevor Panczak, “Where I Go To Come Back”
Folk/Singer-Songwriter
The Cabaret Quicksand, “Colours”
Julia Gartha & Ariza, “Nothing’s More Lonely”
Jazz
Alex Bird, “Fire Not Warmth”
Terry Jahz Lewis, “Romance Me”
Pop/Top 40
Madison Olds, “If You Wanna”
R&B/Hip-Hop
Smoothsaylin, “Sunday Morning”
Screenshot
Madison Olds, “Cliché of Falling in Love”
LITTLE REDFOX, “Human”
World Music
Dieufaite Charles (aka Jahfaa), “Li Pap Kraze”
SOCAN congratulates all of our winning members on these achievements. For a complete list of winners, and to hear the winning songs, click here.