14 Factoids | Volume 6
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Guy Maddin,
a Winnipeg avant-
garde filmmaker
produced, among
many others, The
Saddest Music
in the World
with Isabella
Rossellini, and the
award-winning
My Winnipeg—a
docu-fantasy
detailing Maddin's
hometown.
Lady Gaga and
Perez Hilton
helped discover
Maria Aragon, after
seeing the young
Winnipegger's
cover of "Born this
Way" on YouTube in 2011 (the video has since been
seen over 57 million times!). In the years since the
two have performed together while Aragon's solo
career has taken off exponentially; she's performed
on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, on Parliament Hill
for Prince William and Kate Middleton, and gained
huge exposure in the Philippines.
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Lionel Lemoine
FitzGerald was a
Winnipeg painter who
became the only western
member of Canada's
famous Group of Seven.
These artists heavily
influenced Canadian art
and Canadians' impression
of their community. *
Photo
courtesy
www.imdb.com
Photo courtesy Ernest P. Mayer
Carol Shields,
highly-regarded author
and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction for the
Stone Diaries, spent most
of her productive writing
years living and teaching
in Winnipeg.
