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
Studio albums |
6 |
|---|---|
Singles |
10 |
Collaborations |
5 |
Remix albums |
1 |
Tao-Talk 
I loved that first video, Lisa.
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I like that one also, Jim :)
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So much good stuff you’re putting up Li and so many wonderful musicians for me to chase down.
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Paul, I know what you mean. It’s like unearthing treasure as I learn about each one. Happy you are enjoying the series <3
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❤️
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She has so much excellent music. I didn’t know she had been in Broken Social Scene. Thanks as always for the research. (K)
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Happy you know her music. Will add her to my list. You are welcome, K. I just finished the last post for WMM 2026. Whew!
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It’s a lot of work! But we, your readers, appreciate it.
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<3
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I love the timbre of Feist’s voice. She’s a truly talented and versatile artist and certainly fitting to be featured in your Women Music March series. I liked the KEXP session… those are so great. It was a good showcase of her musical stylings.
If you haven’t seen it before, check out her adaptation of her song “1 2 3 4” for ‘Sesame Street.’ Fun. https://youtu.be/fZ9WiuJPnNA?si=vN7HrYYw9drz2O8l
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That’s awesome, Steve! I just shared the link with son so he can share with granddaughter. She is 1 2 3 4 right now and going to be 5 soon :)
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Aww, nice! Hope they enjoy it. I only knew about that one from watching a Sesame Street episode when with our youngest grandson a couple of years ago.
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I really like her.
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The blend in her music is really good. She has a high voice but it’s a natural one which fits well.
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I like her sound.
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Wow, I went straight to Apple Music to listen, learn more and download some. I remember her Sesame Street cameo, great to find out so much more.
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Awesome, Sean!
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