Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Grimes is a strong advocate of environmental and social justice. Her latest work has been named "Album of the Year", and she's been profiled of late by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. We're honoured to have her support for National Observer's reporting.

Grimes backed Vancouver Observer's Tar Sands Reporting Project Kickstarter project and she wore the project t-shirt at an LA concert. On top of that, she gave permission for us to use her song "Genesis" — with 36 million views on YouTube, nominated by MuchMusic as Dance Video of the Year— on our second Kickstarter campaign video, "Reports from the Energy Battlegrounds."

Grimes' 2012 album Visions — which contains "Genesis"— was praised by The New York Times as one of the "most impressive albums of the year," while her fourth album, Art Angels, was ranked second best album of the year on Rob Sheffield's Top 20 Albums of 2015, in Rolling Stone magazine, and also topped NME's list as album of the year.