Nelly Furtado Cleans Up At Juno Awards

Nelly Furtado, hosted, and dominated the Juno Awards on Sunday night inSaskatoon.

Furtado, who embarked on a career make-over with her latest album, took home three awards.   She proved to be a gracious winner.

“I just hand it to all the Canadian artists. This is for everybody — old, new, up and coming, the legends,” Furtado said as she accepted the trophy for fan choice.   “I’m just happy to be here and humbled.”

“Thank you Canada , I love you for accepting me. I love you!” she added moments later when she picked up another award

Toronto-based band Billy Talent was the only other multiple winner, taking trophies for group of the year and rock album of the year.

Genre-smashing artist k-os was surprisingly shut out of the winner’s circle, losing in all four categories he was nominated in.

Here are the winners at Saturday night’s Juno Awards:

   International Album of the Year: “Taking the Long Way” ( Dixie Chicks).

   Artist of the Year: Nelly Furtado.

   New Group of the Year: Mobile .

   Songwriter of the Year: Gordie Sampson.

   Country Recording of the Year: “Somebody Wrote Love” ( George Canyon ).

   Rap Recording of the Year: “Black Magic” (Swollen Members).

   Adult Alternative Album of the Year: “The Light That Guides You Home” (Jim Cuddy).

   Alternative Album of the Year: “Sometimes” (City and Colour).

   Pop Album of the Year: “Loose” (Nelly Furtado).

   Vocal Jazz Album of the Year: “From This Moment On” (Diana Krall).

   Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year: “From the Heart” (Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band).

   Traditional Jazz Album of the Year: “Avenue Standard” (Jon Ballantyne).

   Instrumental Album of the Year: “Run Neil Run” (Sisters Euclid ).

   Francophone Album of the Year: “Il etait une fois dans l’est” (Antoine Gratton).

   Children’s Album of the Year: “My Beautiful World” (Jack Grunsky).

   Classical Album of the Year, Solo or Chamber Ensemble: “Piazzolla” (Les Violons du Roy/ Jean-Marie Zeitouni).

   Classical Album of the Year, Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) With Large Ensemble Accompaniment: “Mozart: Violin Concerti” (James Ehnes, Mozart Anniversary Orchestra).

   Classical Album of the Year, Vocal or Choral Performance: “Mozart: Arie e Duetti” (Isabel Bayrakdarian, Michael Schade, Russell Braun, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra/ Richard Bradshaw).

   Classical Composition of the Year: “Clere Venus” (Denis Gougeon).

   Dance Recording of the Year: “Sexor” (Tiga).

   Reggae Recording of the Year: “Xrated” (Korexion).

   Aboriginal Recording of the Year: “Sedze” (Leela Gilday).

   Roots & Traditional Album of the Year, Solo: “Yellowjacket” (Stephen Fearing).

   Roots & Traditional Album of the Year, Group: “Bloom” (The McDades).

   Blues Album of the Year: “House of Refuge” (Jim Byrnes).

   Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year: “Wide-Eyed and Mystified” (Downhere).

   World Music Album of the Year: “Kaba Horo” (Lubo Alexandrov).

   Jack Richardson Producer of the Year: Brian Howes.

   Recording Engineer of the Year: John “Beetle” Bailey.

   CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year: Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau for Seripop.

   Video of the Year: “Bridge to Nowhere” (Duplex).

   Music DVD of the Year: “Escarpment Blues” (Andy Keen, Sarah Harmer, Patrick Sambrook).

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