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Labels
  
RA Records

Website
  
www.janilauzon.com


Name
  
Jani Lauzon

TV shows
  
Jani Lauzon at the 2018 CFC Annual BBQ Fundraiser

Role
  
puppeteer · janilauzon.com

Albums
  
Thirst, Blue Voice/New Voice

Awards
  
Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Pre-School Program or Series

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year

Similar
  
Taborah Johnson, Ramona Gilmour Darling, Cheryl l'Hirondelle

Interview with jani lauzon 2014 the summit


Jani Lauzon is a Canadian puppeteer and musician of Métis heritage from East Kootenay, British Columbia. She is a three time Juno Award Nominee with Muppet Show credits that include additional puppetry on Follow That Bird, performing on The Jim Henson Hour, and the character Dip in the Sesame Street Canada television special "Basil Hears a Noise".

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Her other non-Henson credits include Maggie on Groundling Marsh and regular roles on The Big Comfy Couch, Tales From the Long House, Alligator Pie, Happy Castle, Prairie Berry Pie, Mr. Dressup, Wumpa's World, Little Star and Iris the Happy Professor.

Lauzon has also appeared on camera in TV and movies such as Code Name: Eternity, Conspiracy of Silence, Business Management, Maggie's Life, Bingo Road and Destiny Ridge.

She was worked as a radio actress on several radio stations including CBC Radio. In 2012, she performed a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool in an all-aboriginal production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside a cast that also included August Schellenberg as Lear, Tantoo Cardinal as Regan, Billy Merasty as Gloucester and Craig Lauzon as Kent.

Lauzon resides in Toronto, Ontario.

A tawc kie with jani lauzon


Discography

  • Blue Voice/New Voice (1994/2000) RA Records, distributor Indiepool
  • Hearts of the Nations (1997) The Banff Centre/Sweet Grass
  • Thirst (1998) RA Records
  • Heartbeat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women (1998) Smithsonian Folkways
  • Contemporary Native American Music (2006)
  • Mixed Blessings (2007)
  • References

    Jani Lauzon Wikipedia