Andrea Warner

Associate Producer, CBC Music

Andrea Warner (she/her) writes and talks. A lot. She is the author of the forthcoming We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music (an expanded and update edition of her 2015 debut), as well as The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (2024), Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music (2023), and Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (2018). Andrea is an AP at CBC Music, music columnist for CBC Radio’s Radio West, freelance writer, and co-hosts the weekly feminist pop culture podcast Pop This! Andrea is a settler who was born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Sounds of the 2024 Olympics: Karan Aujla, Elyanna, Lisa and more

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Polaris shortlist shortcut: DijahSB's vibrant album, The Flower That Knew

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In Memoriam: a tribute to the musicians who left us in 2023

To the remarkable artists who passed away this year, farewell and thank you.