Aysanabee is an Oji-Cree singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada, whose debut album Watin was released in 2022. He has won two Juno awards, both in 2024, for Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. A member of the Sandy Lake First Nation, he was born Evan Pang, with a non-inherited surname his mother chose in an attempt to protect him from anti-Indigenous racism: by portraying him to the community as Asian instead of Indigenous. Read more on