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Dalton Higgins is a publicist, author of six books, educator, award-winning journalist and cultural critic. Higgins’ publicity roster includes clients that have won Awards including: Grammy Awards (USA), BET Awards (USA), Emmy Awards (USA), The Mercury Prize (UK), Victoires de la Musique/French Grammy’s (France), and Juno Awards (Canada). His book Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake is carried in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame collection in Cleveland, and his best-selling Hip Hop World book is carried in Harvard University’s hip hop archive. Higgins has recently co-produced and/or co-hosted popular podcasts for the CBC (This Is Not a Drake podcast) and Rogers Media (Black Tea). His university course “Deconstructing Drake and The Weeknd” has been featured on CNN, New York Times, and NPR, and he has been a mentor at Toronto's creative incubator HXOUSE (The Weeknd).

From lending his voice as a narrator for culturally enriching documentaries (Chaos, Chords and Karma) to being a story editor and on-air talent on a forthcoming 2024 four-part docuseries about the history of Black music in Canada on the History Channel, much of Higgins’ creative endeavors happen behind the scenes. Higgins has also worked as an award show scriptwriter for the JUNO Awards, Gemini Award-winning comedian Russell Peters, and has conducted a wide range of "live" on-stage in-person interviews with a long list of pop culture icons including Charlamagne Tha God, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Jermaine Dupri, Nelson George, Just Blaze, The Sugarhill Gang, Anthony Kilhoffer (Kanye West), KRS One and Funkmaster Flex.