Pierre Kwenders wins 2022 Polaris Music Prize for ‘José Louis And The Paradox Of Love’
fellow shortlisted acts such as Destroyer (‘LABYRINTHITIS’), Charlotte Day Wilson (‘ALPHA’), Ouri (‘Frame of a Fauna’) and Lisa LeBlanc (‘Chiac Disco’).During an emotional acceptance speech during the ceremony at the Carlu in Toronto, Ontario Kwenders noted that in the past two months, he had lost his grandfather and two of his cousins.“I remember the reason I do what I do and the reason why I do the music that I do and I tell the story that I tell with my music is to tell the story of the people that inspire me,” he noted. “All those three people that I mentioned inspired me as fuck.” Kwenders also thanked his manager and his collaborators on the album, including Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.In an additional statement, Kwenders said: “This is for all the kids from the diaspora, the African diaspora, moving in Canada.