Feist
L’auteure-compositrice-interprète Feist ©Getty – David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns

per wikipedia:
Leslie Feist, (b.2/13/76) is known mononymously as Feist; she’s a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.

Early Years
Leslie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville. Her parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. They later moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Carroll High School as well as Alternative High School. She aspired to be a writer, and spent much of her youth singing in choirs. At the age of 12, Feist performed as one of 1,000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the video “1234.”

As her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian–U.S. citizenship.

Feist is the niece of guitarist Dan Achen, who played in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had produced for numerous artists (Achen died in 2010 of a heart attack.)

Career Beginnings
In 1991, at age 15, Feist got her start in music when she founded and was the lead vocalist for a Calgary punk band called Placebo (not to be confused with the English band Placebo.) She and her bandmates won a local Battle of the Bands competition and were awarded the opening slot at the festival Infest 1993, featuring the Ramones. At this concert she met Brendan Canning, whose band hHead performed immediately before hers, and with whom she joined Broken Social Scene ten years later.

After playing here and there with various bands, she launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch. Her two subsequent studio albums, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies.

Discography

If you want to see the lengthy list of awards and nominations Feist has received, go here

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