Glenn Marais

Glenn Marais is an accomplished songwriter and masterful singer/musician who plays guitar, piano and harmonica. He is an animated and engaging performer who uses his music to inspire change and motivate people of all ages to become engaged in changing the world through his motto, "Give to Live"! He is a music educator who teaches character, equity and social justice, both locally and globally, promoting and inspiring a heightened consciousness amongst today's youth.

Glenn has travelled to Africa several times filming documentaries and music videos, and he has a personal passion for orphaned and at risk children, having raised over $80 000 for the Cotlands orphanage,, in South Africa. He has years of experience working with our local native community in fly-in communities; running leadership camps, self-identity workshops and song writing in indigenous languages, English and French. Glenn was nominated for a Juno Award in the songwriting category for "Everybody Wants to Be Like You" by the artist Snow. It is the fifth most played song in Canadian Radio History. Glenn's own song, "Don't Let Your Love Go", came second in the 2006 MIX 99.9 Canadian Radio Star Contest.

His song, "Like a Child", composed to aid the orphaned children of Africa, went to Number one on Much More Music, and was featured at the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, where Glenn performed in front of over 7000 people, at the closing ceremony. His music video for the song opened the conference, shown at the Rogers Centre. more