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Justin Nozuka is a Canadian/American singer-songwriter. His debut album Holly has been released in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States. He has licensed the album to indie label Coalition Entertainment Records, distributed by Warner Music in Canada, Outcaste Records in the UK/EU distributed by EMI and Glassnote Music in the US distributed by RED.

Nozuka was born in New York City's Queens area, the son of Holly Sedgwick and Hiromitsu Nozuka. His father is Japanese and his mother an American of English ancestry. His mother raised Nozuka and his six siblings as a single mother. He is the brother of R&B singer George, and actor Philip. Other family members include Christian, another musician; Henry, a modern dancer and two sisters, Margaret and Sandra (Sandy).

Nozuka began writing his own songs at age 12 and the earliest of his songs on Holly, "Supposed to Grow Old" and "I'm in Peace," were written when he was 15. While attending St. Andrews College, an international boarding school in Aurora, Ontario, Justin learned to play guitar from Mexican classmates. From there, he went to the Etobicoke School of the Arts. His musical influences stem from artists such as Lauryn Hill and Marvin Gaye. He recently graduated from the Etobicoke School of Arts in Ontario.

With help from a fellow Canadian artist, Damhnait Doyle, whom he met at a song writing workshop, Justin was introduced to Universal Records talent scout, Allan Reid. He recorded three tracks through Universal with Bill Bell as producer, and following this, Universal requested to sign Justin to their label, but he decided he wanted to "record an album on my own, with my own freedom". He has played at the Green room stage at the Irish music festival Oxegen and T in the Park in 2007.

Recently, Nozuka's song "After Tonight" has been featured in a commercial for "Scott Baio Is 46...and Pregnant" on VH1, and has also been featured on mtvU's The Freshman.

In February 2008, Nozuka was nominated for a Juno award in the category of "New Artist of the Year".