{"id":143205,"date":"2025-09-14T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:34:15","slug":"lights-becomes-1st-canadian-to-win-the-billboard-visionary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143205\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights becomes 1st Canadian to win the Billboard Visionary Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Canadian electropop musician Lights is set to receive the Billboard Visionary Award next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She joins previous recipients Lana Del Rey (2023) and Maren Morris (2024), and is the first Canadian artist to receive the honour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She will receive her award at the Billboard Canada Women in Music gala on Oct. 1 in Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lights has had quite the impact across her almost 20-year career, one in which she has redefined &#8220;what it means to be an artist,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/lights-visionary-award-women-in-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard Canada<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From her genre-jumping musical output to her companion comic books, Lights has remained innovative and refreshing ever since she emerged on the Canadian music scene with her 2008 single Drive My Soul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Lights performs her album\u00a0Skin&amp;Earth Acoustic for CBC Music:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s rare for an artist, Canadian or otherwise, to capture such longevity and acclaim over such a prolonged period,&#8221;\u00a0Billboard Canada&#8217;s national editor, Richard Trapunski, said in a statement.\u00a0&#8220;Lights has done it without ever relying on reputation or nostalgia, always pushing forward and doing things her own way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lights has had 10 songs chart on the Billboard Canada Hot 100 since 2009, and eight albums appear on the Canadian Albums chart, including Siberia, Little Machines and Skin &amp; Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Her catalogue spans many genres including pop, EDM, metalcore and darkwave, which is also reflected in her choice of collaborators: deadmau5, Bring Me the Horizon, Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Felix Cartal and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | The official music video for Lights&#8217; song Alive Again:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On top of her artistic output, Lights has also been an advocate for music education and mental health awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In May, she released her latest album, A6, featuring singles Damage and Alive Again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was previously announced that television host, singer and actress Keshia Chant\u00e9 will host the Oct. 1 Billboard Canada Women in Music ceremony, and that Toronto band the Beaches will receive the Women of the Year Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian electropop musician Lights is set to receive the Billboard Visionary Award next month.\u00a0 She joins previous recipients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-143205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}