Hovorka snags six Peoples Choice music awards

Despite having six nominations, Shy-Anne Hovorka went to the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards (APCMA) in Winnipeg on Nov. 1 and 2 with no expectations of winning.
“We were going with the excitement of playing at the awards and I pretty much resigned myself, after looking at the other nominees, that I wasn’t going to win any awards,” Hovorka said of herself and the band.
So she was “shocked, happy and amazed” when she won her first award.
“When they first announced my name, I thought I better thank everybody while I can still can,” she said.
Hovorka ended up making five more speeches after she won all her categories.
In all, Hovorka won awards for Aboriginal Female Entertainer of the Year, Single of the Year, Best Music Video, Best Country CD, Best Producer/Engineer and Best Album Cover Design.
Hovorka won the awards five months after the release of her album Interwoven Roots.
The album cover was designed in part by Silver Suggashie of Pikangikum First Nation, who collaborated with a Sudbury artist.
Hovorka won the Best Video award for the song, “Too Young, Too Late,” which told the dangers of texting and driving.
During the award ceremonies, Hovorka performed “Glue,” the song for which she won the Single of the Year.
Following the announcement of her nominations, Hovorka told Wawatay News she was unsure of whether she will continue her music career. She already had plans of returning to school to earn her master’s in education.
But the awards might change all that.
“With this, and getting a lot of requests for more performances, I think I have re-think everything,” she said. “You gotta be flexible in life.”
As a songwriter, Hovorka said, the songwriting never stops and she already has written a slew of songs.
“There will probably be another album coming down the line,” she said. “I always say there isn’t, but another one always comes along.”
Since it is the Peoples Choice Awards, Hovorka is thankful for all the public support.
“I’d like to thank all the people that took the time go online and vote for me,” she said. “It’s humbling to know that I had all that support out there.”