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Prism Prize Eligible Video: Beatchild & The Slakadeliqs ft. Justin Nozuka

The 2020 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Peter Huang, for his clip for Jessie Reyez's Far Away. We will continue to profile noteworthy Canadian videos, including this one featuring an eclectic Toronto producer/songwriter and a popular folk/soul artist.

Prism Prize Eligible Video: Beatchild & The Slakadeliqs ft. Justin Nozuka

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The 2020 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Peter Huang, for his clip for Jessie Reyez's Far Away. We will continue to profile noteworthy Canadian videos, including this one featuring an eclectic Toronto producer/songwriter and a popular folk/soul artist.


Beatchild & The Slakadeliqs - The Only Difference feat. Justin Nozuka 

Beatchild is a collaborative project fronted by the artist formerly known as Slakah the Beatchild, born Byram Joseph, a music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer from Toronto. Often referred to as a genius in the booth, Beatchild has no boundaries to what can be created within music. Producing genres ranging from rock, soul, hip-hop, folk, and everything in between, he’s worked on projects with the likes of Drake, Divine Brown and Miles Jones, not to mention releasing three stunning solo albums on BBE.

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The Only Difference, a collaborative song with folk and soul artist Justin Nozuka, is the lead single from Beatchild & the Slakadeliqs' latest album, Heavy Rocking Steady. The song speaks on the ideas of coming together in difficult times, something that is very present in the world today. Looking beyond our differences, and bringing human connection to inspire people to take care of each other. 

The video follows suit with the themes of the song laced in the visuals that accompanies it. Opening with a shot of the Sydney Opera House, you see Byram and Justin backstage. It then cuts to a shot of Beatchild with a toddler singing about the idea of togetherness and acceptance. The video follows the pair as they eventually come together in the end with a group of friends, singing and having a good time with one another in a joyous celebration of friendship. 

Video Directed by Dan LeMoyne

Written by: B.joseph, j.nozuka

Produced by: Beatchild

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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.
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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.

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Obituary: Mike Bilcox of Ajax, Ontario Pop-Punk Band Not By Choice

Former drummer and now head of Round One Sports & Entertainment Liam Killeen pens this tribute to his former bandmate, with words from The Feldman Agency's Jeff Craib, Sum 41's Dave Baksh, Simple Plan's Chuck Comeau and more.

Mike Bilcox, lead singer and guitarist of Ajax, Ontario’s second most famous pop-punk band, Not By Choice, passed away on June 21, at age 48.

Mike started Not By Choice with his Ajax High School friend Glenn ‘Chico’ Dunning back in 1997. They had initially played a few shows under different names that may or may not be suitable for print, but our moniker came from Mike bothering his younger sister Chrissy at the dinner table. When she couldn’t take any more of his taunting, she promptly told her Mom, Pat, that he was annoying her – Pat yelled ‘Well, he’s your brother!’ to which Chrissy quickly replied ‘Yeah, not by choice!’. With that, a real band was born.

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