Английская Википедия:Aquakultre

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Aquakultre is a Canadian soul and R&B[1] musical project from Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose core member is singer and rapper Lance Sampson.[2] They are most noted for their album Legacy, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.[3]

Sampson's ancestors are from Africville, and he grew up in the Uniacke Square neighbourhood of Halifax.[4][5] He was a troubled teenager, who spent some time trafficking drugs and received a five-year prison sentence as a teenager. After being exposed to the music of Common and Erykah Badu, he taught himself to play guitar, and was released from prison after just 19 months for good behaviour.[6] He began performing as a rapper and singer in 2015, and in 2018 he won CBC Music's annual Searchlight competition with "Sure", a song he had written in prison.[7]

He recorded Legacy in just seven days at the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, with a band that included Nathan Doucet, Jeremy Costello and Nick Dourado.[8] Following the release of preview singles "Pay It Forward", "I Doubt It" and "Wife Tonight",[9] the album was released in May 2020 on Black Buffalo Records.[10]

In August 2020, he announced that his second album Bleeding Gums Murphy, a collaboration with DJ and producer Uncle Fester, would be released on October 9.[11]

His video for "Pay It Forward", directed by Sampson and Evan Elliot, won the Audience Award at the 2021 Prism Prize.[12]

Aquakultre performed on the 2021 FreeUp! The Emancipation Day Special.[13] He contributed vocals for "Summer Night Songs", the title song of the 2021 documentary The North Star: Finding Black Mecca.[14]

His third album, Don't Trip, was released in July 2022,[15] and was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.[16]

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