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Billboard Canada FYI Track of the Week: Loud Luxury feat. charlieonnafriday, "Young and Foolish"

This week, we're spotlighting a catchy cut from a smash Canadian dance music duo now stationed in Los Angeles.

Loud Luxury

Loud Luxury

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Loud Luxury, the Canadian-born hitmaking dance music duo of Andrew Fedyk and Joe De Pace now based in Los Angeles, continues to build an international audience after taking the Canadian scene by storm. In addition to multiple Juno Award wins, Loud Luxury has a Canadian diamond single via the track "Body," an international smash that accumulated nearly 2 billion streams across all platforms.

The new cut "Young & Foolish" (Armada Music/Sony) features fast-rising U.S. pop act charlieonnafriday, and looks poised to be another dance-pop winner. charlieonnafriday's vocals mesh neatly with LL's signature catchy beats on an ode to dance floor hedonism. Sample lyrics: "Spilling drinks on my shoes, face down and I'm covered in bruises, but I'd do it all again cuz I'm young and I'm foolish."


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In a label press release, Loud Luxury explains that “charlieonnafriday is an artist we’ve been following for the last year, and we’ve played so many of the same colleges together that it was only a matter of time before we teamed up. From the first time we were in the studio together, we were adamant about this track being fun, but brutally honest. We wanted to describe the highs – and lows – of growing up.”

Loud Luxury premiered the track live at the Electric Daisy Carnival fest in Florida last month, to a positive response.

Loud Luxury plays Rebel in Toronto on Dec. 22 and the Toboggan Festival in Quebec City on Dec. 28. The duo then appears on the Hollywood segment of the 2024 Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest show, sharing the stage with such stars as Green Day, Janelle Monae, Ludacris, Aqua, Bebe Rexha, Ellie Goulding and Nile Rodgers & Chic. 2024 shows include the Lollapalooza festival in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil in March. Loud Luxury also currently holds a Las Vegas residency with TAO Group at OMNIA, Hakkasan and Wet Republic.

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Kate Hammett-Vaughan
Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Kate Hammett-Vaughan

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Obituaries: Canadian Jazz Singer Kate Hammett-Vaughan, Scottish-Canadian Folk Star Enoch Kent

This week we also acknowledge the passing of former Santana vocalist Alex Ligterwood and Jamaican ska pioneer Carlos Malcolm.

Kate Hammett-Vaughan, a Vancouver-based and Juno-nominated jazz vocalist, died on May 7, at age 69, after a long illness.

An obituary posted in the Vancouver Province reports that "Kathryn Andrea Vaughan was born in 1957 in Nova Scotia. She studied English at Acadia University where she started singing jazz. The Great American Songbook would be her passion and profession for the next 50 years."

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