Our Indigenous Spotlight Series highlights top contemporary Indigenous music artists on the scene. Meriläinen Müsic Inc., founded by Marc and Laura Meriläinen, is a majority Indigenous owned full-service record label providing professional music industry services to emerging and established artists. Meriläinen Müsic Inc. is committed to advancing and promoting the careers and opportunities within the music industry for all artists while also specializing in serving the Indigenous Artist community.

Zeegwon Shilling is a 19 year old Anishnawbe Toronto and Wasauksing First Nation based actor and singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who is just beginning to share his voice with the world. Since he was a small child Zeegwon has expressed his passion for music and performance as a self-taught pianist, vocalist and actor. In November 2018 he was captured on camera singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah which went viral on Facebook garnering over 100,000 views in 3 days (600k+ in total). He has now begun to shift his work into writing, recording and acting with many upcoming projects to look forward to.

Insta: @zeegwon