Glenn Marais

Glenn Marais is a singer/songwriter who uses his music for healing and hope through his company, Music in Mind. He teaches character education through music, motivational speaking, curriculum kits, workshops, activities and school assemblies to thousands of students inspiring them to get involved locally and globally with his universal motto, “Give to live”!

Achievements

Keynote speaker at Together We’re Better Conference, The largest student conference in the Calendar, for the YRDSB, in 2007, 2008 and 2009. .

Guest performer and presenter at the YRDSB “Power of Literacy through the Arts” Conference, 2008 and 2009

• Glenn co-wrote the song “Everybody Wants to Be Like You”, with the artist, “Snow” in 2000. The song was the second fastest rising song in Canadian history, reaching the Top Ten and is currently the fifth most played song in Canadian radio history. • Glenn received a Socan award and was nominated for a Juno award in the best songwriting category for “Everybody Wants to Be Like You”. • In November 2005, Glenn flew to Africa to fi lm a video for his song, “Like a Child”. It debuted on Much More Music on Jan.30th/2006 and is currently number one on Much More Music’s “Clip Trip” show. • On Sunday Aug.13th /06, the video for Like a Child, debuted at the Rogers Centre Skydome for the Toronto International AIDS Conference. On Friday Aug.18th/06 Glenn Closed the AIDS conference with a performance of Like a Child in front of 7000 people, broadcast internationally on CBC Newsworld. • Like a Child was on rotation on 20 AC and HOT AC stations across Canada, receiving rave reviews: Like a Child made it on to the MUSIC MENU POWER PICK TOP TEN PAGE for “Canadian Network Magazine” • Glenn came second in the 2006 Mix 99.9 Canadian Radio Star Contest, with his entry, “Don’t Let Your Love Go”