AHI (musician) | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Ahkinoah Habah Izarh |
Genres | Folk Singer |
Ahkinoah Habah Izarh, better known by the stage name AHI is a Canadian singer-songwriter. [1] He has been a two-time Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year, receiving nods at the Juno Awards of 2019 for his album In Our Time [2] and at the Juno Awards of 2022 for his album Prospect. [3]
Originally from Brampton, Ontario and based primarily in Toronto, [4] he released his debut album We Made It Through the Wreckage in 2016. [5] In 2017, he won the Canadian Songwriting Competition in the folk category, as well as the Stingray Rising Star Award at the Folk Music Ontario conference. [6] He then signed to Thirty Tigers, which released his sophomore album In Our Time in 2018 [7] and Prospect in 2021. The latter was longlisted for Canada's prestigious Polaris Music Prize in 2022. [8]