Garth Prince is the stage name of Garth Prinsonsky, a Namibian-Canadian musician and writer.[1] He is most noted for his 2021 album Falling in Africa, which was a Canadian Folk Music Award nominee for Best Children's Album at the 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2022,[2] and won the Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.[3] Born in Cape Town, South Africa, and raised in Swakopmund, Namibia,[1] he was a member of the Mascato Youth Choir in childhood, and was later associated with the band Afroshine, best known for their 2008 single "Ti Mama".[1] He moved to Edmonton, Alberta after marrying a Canadian woman he had met while touring Canada,[1] and works primarily as a children's entertainer and educator on African music and culture.[4] He was the subject of Memoirs of the Motherland, a short documentary film, in 2019.[4]
