Corey Hart met his wife at Junos and returns for induction to hall ...

They met for the first time presenting a Juno. It was significant for Corey Hart and Julie Masse as it led to the end of their marriages and marriage to each other.

Masse was coming off her sophomore album that night and picked up best new female artist.

When host Celine Dion welcomed the pair onto the stage, their casual banter was magnetic. They announced the Barenaked Ladies as the winners of the Juno.

As Hart made his way back to his seat, Masse's manager stopped him to gush about their stage presence.

"He quickly garbled out to me that Julie was going to be pursuing a career in English," Hart said.

"He thought we looked like we had great chemistry together. I don't think (this) is what he imagined when he made that comment."

Months later, Hart wound up in the studio working alongside producer Tom Lord-Alge on Masse's single "One More Moment." More songs followed as production moved to Morin-Heights, Que.

The pair was in love by the following year, he said.

"Literally from the time we started seeing each other in the summer of 1994 we've never been apart for more than a few days," he said.

Both Hart and Masse were in crumbling marriages at the time, he said, and those quickly dissolved.

"It was complicated," he added.

The couple had three daughters before they wed in 2000, and a son after they tied the knot.

When Hart began to ease out of Canada's music industry the family settled in the Bahamas.

In more recent years, Hart, now 56, and Masse have collaborated on each other's work. She appears as a backup singer on his upcoming EP "Dreaming Time Again," due for release on May 3.

Masse, 48, will also join him on stage when he closes out the Juno broadcast performing some of his biggest hits.

"There's an empathy and an understanding that only another artist can relate to," Hart said.

"We're very simpatico together."

The Juno Awards air Sunday on CBC-TV.