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This visual for 17 year old Canadian singer/songwriter Megan Landry’s single “Wallpaper” showed up in my inbox this weekend. The video/imagery and the single envoke various feelings while driving home the message. Learn more about Megan by reading her bio below.

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Megan Landry Bio

I’ve been playing piano since I was four, self-taught up to age nine then got lessons, and wrote my first song when I was 11. I was a bit of a weird kid (still am). I seemed always drawn to things that allowed me to be an individual. It always stemmed from creative outlets — like drawings, poems or songs. I never liked math and science much because it’s so black and white. Your answer is either right or wrong. I discovered art, music and writing had thousands of different shades of gray in an otherwise black and white world. There was no solid ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I realized that there’s more to learning than what you get out of right or wrong answers. The more I did my own thing, kids started to look at me differently. They’d notice me for the pictures that I drew and the songs that I’d play, and that was the best feeling in the world. I broke away from the norm, and since, I’ve never gone back.

Expressing myself is the entire purpose of being an artist. Making a point, sharing opinions, shaking sense, primping feelings — it’s all part of it. The instruments paint the emotions and the lyrics paint the story.

Awards and Achievements

• 2013 Beat100.com — Winner, first place, international competition
• 2013 Governor General of Canada • Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal — recipient
• 2012 Great Canadian Song Search — Ottawa finalist
• 2012 STAR NOW Music Immersive — International finalist
• 2012 Girl Guides of Canada — Judge: national video campaign “International Day of the Girl Child”
• 2012 Spirit of the Capital Youth Awards — Winner “Arts and Culture”
• 2012 Archimedia Studios, Atlanta — Winner: “Top Female Artist”
• 2011 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals — “OCFF Youth Program” Winner
• 2008 Creativity Award (Dance, Art and Music) | St. Monica’s Catholic School
• 2007 MASC Young Authors’ and Illustrators’ Conference (2-day workshop)