14 Factoids | Volume 8
PROMINENT
'PEGGERS
Guy Maddin, a Winnipeg
avant-garde filmmaker produced,
among many others, The Saddest
Music in the World with Isabella
Rossellini, the docu-fantasy
detailing Maddin's hometown,
My Winnipeg, and in 2016 won
the Rogers Best Canadian Film
Award for his surreal outing, The
Forbidden Room.
* 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 been viewed over 58.5
million times!). Since then 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.
*
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
