11 Facts About Jazz Cartier

Jazz Cartier is best known for his mixtapes: Marauding in Paradise and Hotel Paranoia.

Jazz Cartier has twice been a long listed nominee for the Polaris Music Prize, in 2015 for Marauding in Paradise, and 2016 for Hotel Paranoia, and won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017 for Hotel Paranoia.

Jazz Cartier released his debut studio album Fleurever in July 2018.

Jazz Cartier's stepfather worked as a diplomat for the US State Department, which made him move around frequently in childhood with his family, living in various times in the United States, Barbados and Kuwait attending 13 boarding schools.

Jazz Cartier then spent a postgraduate year at Bridgton Academy in North Bridgton, ME after completing high school.

Jazz Cartier was accepted to an art program at Columbia College Chicago in 2012 but, reluctant to move to a new city where he knew no one, he returned to Toronto.

Jazz Cartier had worked on an early version of his debut mixtape, Marauding in Paradise, in 2011, but was not satisfied with the tape.

On February 23, Jazz Cartier was announced as one of the performers at the 2016 Osheaga Festival.

Jazz Cartier was a shortlisted nominee for the 2016 SOCAN Songwriting Prize for his track "Dead or Alive".

Jazz Cartier later announced that his next project following Hotel Paranoia would be titled Fleurever on December 16,2016.

Jazz Cartier released the lead single from the album titled, "Tempted" on January 6,2017.