Meanwhile, whatever happened to that personal slump that inspired Sucker? “They’re pretty badass looking,” she says with a laugh. But she may treat herself to a splurge on the side: a “sweet new” Gretsch Black Penguin electric guitar. She figures she’ll spend most of the money on making that album. She says he’ll produce her sophomore effort as well, a record still in the embryonic stages that she hopes to begin recording in the late fall. Kenney, 23, released her self-titled debut last September, produced by East Coast songwriting stalwart Joel Plaskett. “I was really, really pleasantly surprised.” “I was in really good company, obviously, and I wasn’t really expecting to win,” Kenney said. Quebec’s Keith Kouna won the French award for Batiscan.īy winning, Kenney bested a field that included Montreal’s icy electro-pop outfit Purity Ring, stylistically diverse Toronto singer/songwriter Maylee Todd, rootsy Hamilton duo Whitehorse and banjo-brandishing Toronto native Tamara Lindeman, who performs as the Weather Station. Kenney and her tune have won the $5,000 English-language SOCAN Songwriting Prize, awarded by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. ‘I was in really good company, obviously, and I wasn’t really expecting to win’ The resultant tune helped Kenney find that direction she was searching for - and on Wednesday heralded some more good fortune. “So I got a little bit drunk in my room and started writing.” I was working toward something but I wasn’t sure what to do,” she recalled in a telephone interview this week. “So I was sitting there feeling kind of about myself and music wasn’t really going anywhere either.
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