Casey Manierka-Quaile

Casey Manierka-Quaile, also known as Casey MQ, is a Canadian musician.[1] He is most noted as a winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for "And Then We Don't", a song he cowrote with Tika Simone for Thyrone Tommy's film Learn to Swim.[2]

Formerly associated with the band Unbuttoned,[3] he released his solo debut album babycasey in 2020.[4] In the same year he was one of the creators of Club Quarantine, a popular Zoom-based online club night for LGBTQ audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

In 2021 he followed up with the remix album babycasey: ultra.[6]

He has also been a member of the reunited lineup of 1980s New Wave band Spoons,[7] and was one of the producers on Cadence Weapon's Polaris Music Prize-winning album Parallel World.[8]

References
  1. Trey Alston, "Would You Be Casey MQ's 'Candyboy'?". Paper, November 26, 2020.
  2. "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  3. Elio Iannacci, "Cupid's revenge". Fashion, February 2017.
  4. Rachel Evangeline Chong, "Casey MQ Celebrates and Interrogates the Glamour of '90s Boy Band Pop on 'babycasey'". Exclaim!, August 17, 2020.
  5. Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Is Keeping Toronto's Nightlife Alive with Club Quarantine, Isolation's Biggest Queer Dance Party". Exclaim!, April 10, 2020.
  6. Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Announces 'babycasey: ultra' Remix Album". Exclaim!, September 29, 2021.
  7. Coral Andrews, "Spoons continue fun-loving journey". Waterloo Region Record, February 10, 2017.
  8. Jenny Feniak, "Cadence Weapon's Parallel World wins 2021 Polaris Music Prize as best Canadian album". Edmonton Journal, October 1, 2021.


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