When Tate McRae became the first Canadian finalist on the U.S. reality TV series So You Think You Can Dance, it was obvious she could move to the groove. After all, she had been training in dance since age six.

But a career in pop music wasn’t an immediately expected followup to that performance.

Only a year later, she was releasing singles on her previously dance-video-heavy YouTube channel and had inked a deal with RCA Record in 2019. Her debut EP, All the Things I Never Said, dropped in 2020 and contained her top-15 Canadian pop-charting single Stupid.

McRae was on her way.

Jump ahead to the 2025 Juno Awards in Vancouver, and McRae and Josh Ross were the two most nominated artists, with five nods each. By the end of the night, McRae walked away with four awards; Artist of the Year,

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