Singers Molly Johnson, k.d. lang given Canada’s highest performing arts honour
Learning she’d been awarded Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts elicited two extreme emotions from jazz singer and philanthropist Molly Johnson.
On the other hand, Johnson says she was “a little annoyed” and it took her “a good month” to accept the honour. She also continues to collect donations for her Kumbaya Foundation, which closed in 1995 but is still being mailed cheques that she forwards to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Johnson co-founded it in 1992 to raise funds and awareness for people living with HIV/AIDS, only wrapping it when she became pregnant. In that short time, she says it raised more than $4 million.
“Her concerts in Paris are generally sold out and French jazz radio stations regularly play her songs. It is hence fitting that my country rewards her for all these achievements in her hometown, Toronto.” Bell, born on the Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve near Montréal to a Mohawk father and an American mother, said he’s “very honoured and humbled” by the recognition as he recalled obstacles to founding the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, now known as Indspire, and its companion awards show, which marks its 30th anniversary May 11 in Edmonton.
“People don’t think we have the capabilities and the capacity, and they somehow look at us and think we’re inferior and not capable,” Bell says of Indigenous Peoples.
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