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Damian Abraham sings in your mom's favourite Toronto-based hardcore band, Fucked Up. Both highly dysfunctional and internationally acclaimed (not many bands can have a feature review in The New York Times that doesn't mention their band name once), Fucked Up gained word-of-mouth notoriety through their batshit insane live shows, their prolific output of limited-run 7" records (many of which now sell on eBay for hundreds of dollars), and bizarro collaborations. Their Polaris nomination for The Chemistry of Common Life—a record that has seen almost universal critical acclaim—comes at the end of a year that saw the band open for the Stooges at Massey Hall, get banned from MTV, play a twelve-hour set in NYC (with bonkers guests including Moby on a cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop"), and saw Damian become both a dad and a Fox News correspondent. When he's not crushing pint glasses into his head (or being a super sweet dude that your mom would actually love), Damian is telling Torontoist about the strangeness of being nominated for a major music prize in a country that has always kinda sorta ignored them.

A veteran of the Toronto theatre scene, playwright and producer trey anthony is best known for turning her one-woman play 'Da Kink in my Hair into an international success story, selling out the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, as well as shows in London (U.K.) and San Diego. She has earned four Doras and four NAACP awards and created a national television series based on the play. Trey is currently producing her brother's debut play, Secrets of a Black Boy, which opens September 23.