Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976), known
mononymously
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as Feist, is a Canadian
indie pop
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singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the
indie rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...
group
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene is a Canadians, Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Cannin ...
.
Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of ''Monarch''. Her subsequent studio albums, ''
Let It Die'', released in 2004, and ''
The Reminder
''The Reminder'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist. It was released on April 23, 2007 in countries outside of North America, and May 1, 2007 in the United States and Canada.
Following its release, it debuted on the ...
'', released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. ''The Reminder'' earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for
Best New Artist
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. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year. Her fourth studio album, ''
Metals
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'', was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group
Mastodon
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, releasing an interactive music video in the process.
Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for ''Metals'', and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary ''
Look at What the Light Did Now
''Look at What the Light Did Now'' is a documentary/live album DVD/CD by Canadian indie pop artist Feist, first released in December 2010. The DVD comprises an 80-minute documentary directed by Anthony Seck, five music videos from 2007 album T ...
''.
Early life
Leslie Feist was born on 13 February 1976 in
Amherst, Nova Scotia
Amherst ( ) is a town in northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and south of the Northumberland Strait. The town sits on a height of land at the eastern boundary of th ...
, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian
abstract expressionist
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painter who taught at both the
Alberta College of Art and Design
The Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) is a public art university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that operates four academic schools.
The institution originated from the art departmen ...
and
Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.
Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not parti ...
in
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It is home to Mount Allison University, a primarily undergraduate liberal arts university. Historically based on agriculture, shipbuilding, and manufacturing, the economy is now driven ...
. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of
ceramic
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s from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville. Feist is also the niece of guitarist Dan Achen, who played in the 1990s rock band
Junkhouse
Junkhouse was a Canadian rock band, formed during 1989 in Hamilton, Ontario. They released three albums during the 1990s, which spawned numerous charting singles in Canada. They initially disbanded in 1998, and reformed for various one-off shows a ...
and had also produced for numerous artists (Achen died in 2010 due to a heart attack).
Feist's parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother moved to
Regina, Saskatchewan
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, where they lived with her grandparents. They later moved to
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
, Alberta, where she attended
Bishop Carroll High School as well as
Alternative High School
Alternative High School (AHS) is a public senior high (secondary) school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; which teaches grades 10 through 12. AHS is currently located at the Clinton Ford Centre, which was home to the former Clinton Ford Elementary Sc ...
. 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
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, which she cites as inspiration for the video "1234."
Because her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, joking later that she was given U.S. citizenship as part of a deal with
Apple
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.
Music career
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
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In general ...
).
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
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving a limited commercial appeal in the United ...
. At this concert she met
Brendan Canning Brendan may refer to:
People
* Saint Brendan the Navigator (c. 484 – c. 577) was an Irish monastic saint.
* Saint Brendan of Birr (died 573), Abbot of Birr in Co. Offaly, contemporaneous with the above
* Brendan (given name), a masculine given na ...
, whose band
hHead
hHead were a Canadian alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Ajax.
The band was originally formed by Noah Mintz and Brendan Canning as an acoustic duo,"hHead music simple, melancholy; Disc reminiscent of 'Seattle sound'". ''Ottawa Citizen'', Oc ...
performed immediately before hers, and with whom she joined in
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene is a Canadians, Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Cannin ...
ten years later.
In 1995, Feist was forced to take time off from music to recover from vocal cord damage. She moved from Calgary to Toronto in 1996. That year she was asked by
Noah Mintz
Noah Mintz (born September 12, 1969) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and mastering engineer. Mintz founded the band hHead with Brendan Canning in the 1990s. He released solo material under the name Noah's Arkweld following the br ...
of
hHead
hHead were a Canadian alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Ajax.
The band was originally formed by Noah Mintz and Brendan Canning as an acoustic duo,"hHead music simple, melancholy; Disc reminiscent of 'Seattle sound'". ''Ottawa Citizen'', Oc ...
to play bass in his solo project
Noah's Arkweld. She played the bass guitar in Noah's Arkweld for a year despite never having played bass before. In 1998, she became the rhythm guitarist for the band
By Divine Right
By Divine Right is a Canadian indie rock band led by guitarist and vocalist José Miguel Contreras.
History
The band was formed in 1989 by high school friends Contreras, drummer Mark Goldstein, bass guitarist Liz Teear and guitarist Steve Berma ...
and toured with them throughout 1998, 1999, and 2000. She also played guitar for some live performances by
Bodega, but was never an official member of the band.
In 1999, Feist moved into a
Queen West apartment above
Come As You Are with a friend of a friend,
Merrill Nisker
Merrill Nisker (born 11 November 1966), better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electroclash musician and producer.
Born in Ontario, Peaches began her musical career in the 1990s as part of a folk trio, Mermaid Cafe. In 1995, sh ...
, who then began to perform as electro-punk musician
Peaches
The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned, non-fuz ...
.
Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches' shows, using a
sock puppet
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and calling herself "Bitch Lap Lap". The two also toured together in England from 2000–2001, staying with
Justine Frischmann
Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and retired musician. She was the lead singer of the Britpop band Elastica after forming Suede, before retiring from the music industry and pursuing a career as a painter.
...
of
Elastica
Elastica were an English rock band formed in London in 1992 by ex-Suede members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch. The band was stylistically influenced by punk rock, post-punk and new wave music. The band's members changed several times, w ...
and
MIA
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* M.I.A. (band), 1980s punk rock band from Orange County, California
* MIA., a German rock/pop band formed in 1997
* Mia (singer) (born 1983) ...
. Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on ''
The Teaches of Peaches.'' Feist appears in Peaches' video for the song "
Lovertits", suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Later, Feist covered this song with
Gonzales Gonzales may refer to:
Places
* Gonzales, California, U.S.
* Gonzales, Louisiana, U.S.
* Gonzales, Texas, U.S.
* Gonzales County, Texas
Other uses
* Battle of Gonzales, 1835
* Gonzales (horse) (1977 – after 1996), an American-bred Thoroughbred ...
(whom she met while touring with Peaches) on her album ''Open Season''. In 2006, Feist contributed backup vocals on a track entitled "Give 'Er", which appeared on
Peaches' album ''
Impeach My Bush
''Impeach My Bush'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer Peaches, released on July 7, 2006 by XL Recordings. The album includes guest appearances by Joan Jett, Beth Ditto, Josh Homme, Samantha Maloney, Mocky and her one-time roommate F ...
.''
''Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)'' (1999–2001)
Feist's solo debut album, ''Monarch,'' was released in 1999. It is composed of ten songs, including "Monarch" and "That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean." The album was produced by Dan Kurtz, who would later form
Dragonette
Dragonette is the stage name of Canadian singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara. Originally an electronic music band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2005, the band consisted of Sorbara with her husband Dan Kurtz as bassist and producer (also in The ...
.
''Let It Die'' (2001–2006)
In the summer of 2001, Feist self-produced seven songs at home which she called ''The Red Demos,'' which have never been released commercially. She spent more than two years touring throughout Europe with Gonzales. In that same year she joined a group of old friends in forming a new version of Toronto indie rock group
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene is a Canadians, Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Cannin ...
, adding vocals to many tracks after being forbidden to play guitar by de facto bandleader
Kevin Drew
Kevin Drew (born September 9, 1976) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who, together with Brendan Canning, founded the expansive Toronto baroque-pop collective Broken Social Scene. He was also part of the lesser-known KC Accidental, which con ...
. She subsequently recorded ''
You Forgot It in People
''You Forgot It in People'' is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene, released on October 15, 2002. It was the band's commercial breakthrough. ''You Forgot It in People'' features intricate, experimental productio ...
'' with the band. While on tour in Europe with Gonzales, they began recording new versions of her home recorded ''Red Demos,'' which would later become her major label debut ''
Let It Die.'' ''Let It Die'' featured both original compositions and covers, and Feist has been noted both as a songwriter and as an innovative interpreter of other artists' songs.
After the recording of ''Let It Die,'' Feist moved to Paris. While in Europe, she collaborated with Norwegian duo
Kings of Convenience
Kings of Convenience is an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway, consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe.
History
Øye and Bøe were both born in 1975 (Øye on 21 November and Bøe on 25 October) and have known each other since they ...
as co-writer and guest vocalist on their album ''
Riot on an Empty Street
''Riot on an Empty Street'' is the second album from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience. It features two song collaborations with Canadian musician Feist. It peaked at #2 in Norway, #3 in Italy (staying in the chart for a year) and #49 in the UK. ...
,'' singing on "Know How" and "The Build Up." She also co-wrote and sang "The Simple Story" as a duet with
Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin, Order of British Empire, OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an English-French singer and actress. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She als ...
on her album ''Rendezvous.''
![Feistportrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Feistportrait.jpg)
Feist toured during 2004, 2005 and 2006 through North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia supporting ''
Let It Die.'' She won two Canadian
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
s for "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Rock Album" in 2004. Sales of ''Let It Die'' totaled 500, 000 internationally, and she was awarded a platinum record in Canada, as well as a gold album in France. Fellow Canadian
Buck 65
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appeared in the Feist-directed music video for "One Evening," which was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 2004 Juno Awards.
In 2005, Feist contributed to the
UNICEF
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benefit song "
Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?
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" The track “
Mushaboom" was used in an advert for a
Lacoste
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men's fragrance, as well as in the film ''
500 Days of Summer
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''.
An album of remixes and collaborations, ''
Open Season'', was released on 18 April 2006.
Feist also lent her voice to the two tracks "La Même Histoire" and "We're All in the Dance" for the soundtrack to the 2006 film ''
Paris, je t'aime
''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ''Paris, I love you'') is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 director ...
.''
''The Reminder'' (2006–2007)
![Leslie Feist at the filmore in SF](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Leslie_Feist_at_the_filmore_in_SF.png)
In early 2006, Feist moved to Paris,
where she recorded a followup to ''Let It Die'' at LaFrette Studios with
Gonzales Gonzales may refer to:
Places
* Gonzales, California, U.S.
* Gonzales, Louisiana, U.S.
* Gonzales, Texas, U.S.
* Gonzales County, Texas
Other uses
* Battle of Gonzales, 1835
* Gonzales (horse) (1977 – after 1996), an American-bred Thoroughbred ...
,
Mocky
Mocky (born October 7, 1974) is a Canadian singer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer.
Biography
Mocky was born Dominic Salole in Saskatchewan, Canada. He later moved to Ottawa and Toronto, and then to London, Amst ...
,
Jamie Lidell
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, and Renaud Letang, as well as her touring band Bryden Baird, Jesse Baird, Julian Brown of
Apostle of Hustle
Apostle of Hustle was a Canadian indie rock group, formed as a side project in 2001 by Andrew Whiteman, who has been in such groups as Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Que Vida and plays as the lead guitarist for the indie supergroup Broken Social Sc ...
, and
Afie Jurvanen of Paso Mino.
Feist's third solo album, ''
The Reminder
''The Reminder'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist. It was released on April 23, 2007 in countries outside of North America, and May 1, 2007 in the United States and Canada.
Following its release, it debuted on the ...
,'' was released on 23 April 2007 in Europe, and on 1 May 2007 in Canada, the USA, and the rest of the world. She toured worldwide to promote the album. The album features "
1234
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By place
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," a song co-written by New Buffalo's
Sally Seltmann
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*Sally (name), a list of notable people with the name
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, that became a surprise hit after being featured in a commercial for the
iPod nano
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, hitting No. 8 in the US, a rare feat for
indie rock
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musicians and even more notable since it hit the Top Ten on the strength of downloads alone. She has been lauded in the press and was featured on the cover of the ''New York Times'' arts section in June 2007. ''
The Reminder
''The Reminder'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist. It was released on April 23, 2007 in countries outside of North America, and May 1, 2007 in the United States and Canada.
Following its release, it debuted on the ...
'' had sold worldwide over 1,000,000 copies and is certified gold in the U.S. The album also won a
2008 Juno Award for
"Album of the Year" on 6 April 2008 in Calgary, Alberta.
Videos for many of the singles were directed by
Patrick Daughters
Patrick Daughters (born 1976 in Berkeley, California) is an American music videomaker and commercial director currently signed to Anonymous Content.
Daughters is a graduate of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. While still in colleg ...
, who previously directed the video for "Mushaboom" and went on to direct "1234," "My Moon, My Man," and "I Feel It All." "1234" and "My Moon, My Man" were choreographed by the acclaimed choreographer & dancer
Noemie Lafrance. The video for ''Honey, Honey'' features the work of avant-garde puppet troupe,
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop The Old Trout Puppet Workshop is a puppet theatre company, founded on a ranch in southern Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. ...
.
"
I Feel It All
"I Feel It All" is a song by Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter Feist, released as the third single from her third full-length album, ''The Reminder'' (2007), in 2008. The song was acclaimed by music critics and appeared on several music char ...
" was featured in the UK teen comedy ''
The Inbetweeners
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'' and was used in the film ''
The Accidental Husband
''The Accidental Husband'' is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini, and Sam Shepard. The film was written by Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor and Bon ...
''. "Honey Honey" was featured in ''
The L Word
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'' (episode 5.06, "Lights! Camera! Action!"). "I Feel It All" was featured in the 2008 film ''
The Women''. Popular German DJ
Boys Noize
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remixed "My Moon, My Man," which appears on his 2007 debut album ''
Oi Oi Oi''. The DJ has also been known to close sets with the remix. In January 2009,
Bon Iver
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Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, ''For Emma, Forever Ago,'' independently in July 2007. The majority of the album was recorded while Vernon ...
played a cover of Feist's "The Park" from ''The Reminder'' on Australian radio's
Triple J
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. The song "Limit to Your Love" was featured in season 2, episode 1 of British teen drama ''
Skins'', and was used in the film ''
The Accidental Husband
''The Accidental Husband'' is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini, and Sam Shepard. The film was written by Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor and Bon ...
''. A
cover version
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of the song was released by UK singer-producer
James Blake as a single from his 2011 self-titled album.
Prior to the airing of an Apple iPod nano commercial featuring this song, ''The Reminder'' was selling at approximately 6,000 copies per week, and "1234" at 2,000 downloads per week. Following the commercial, the song passed 73,000 total downloads and reached No. 7 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100; ''The Reminder'' jumped from No. 36 to No. 28 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 19,000. Following the television advertisement for the iPod nano in the UK, the single beat its original chart position of 102 to become number 8 in the UK charts. ''
Time
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'' magazine named "1234" one of The 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at No. 2. Writer
Josh Tyrangiel
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called the song a "masterpiece," praising Feist for singing it "with a mixture of wisdom and exuberance that's all her own". On 6 April 2008, Feist won a
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
for the single as
"Single of the Year".
Feist performed an alternate version of "1234" on ''
Sesame Street
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'' during its 39th season (2008), teaching children to count to the number four. She said working with the Muppets was a career highlight.
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In 2009, Feist appeared in a short film directed by Broken Social Scene bandmate Kevin Drew that focused on her song "The Water." Feist appears alongside Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. Originally the lead singer, guitarist, and lyricist of the rock band The Sons of Mr. Green Genes, he turned down a record deal in the late 1990s and began acting on stage and in short and ...
and David Fox in the silent role of "Mother." This film was streamed from Pitchfork.com for a week starting on 2 March 2009. In an interview with the site, Feist described the experience of being in this movie as "watching a movie while being in a movie."
''Metals'' (2007–2013)
In 2007, Feist was placed No. 9 on Spinner.com's 2007 ''Women Who Rock Right Now''. and named both Spin
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's and Blender
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's Breakout Artist of the Year. After taking Bob Wiseman
Robert Neil "Bob" Wiseman (born 1962) is a film composer, songwriter, author and music teacher. Wiseman discovered or produced many artists including Ron Sexsmith, The Lowest of the Low, Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall, Anhai, and former ...
on the road as her opening act in Europe she acted in his video ''Who Am I'' and joined him on drums for ''You Don't Love Me''.
Feist was photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou Leibovitz ( ; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz's Polaroid photo of Jo ...
for the November 2007 issue of '' Vanity Fair'' as part of a photo essay on folk music. On 3 November that year, she performed "1234
Year 1234 ( MCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* King Canute II (the Tall) dies after a 5-year reign. His rival, Eric XI (the Lisp and ...
" and "I Feel It All
"I Feel It All" is a song by Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter Feist, released as the third single from her third full-length album, ''The Reminder'' (2007), in 2008. The song was acclaimed by music critics and appeared on several music char ...
" on ''Saturday Night Live
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''.
Feist was on the cover of the Spring 2008 edition of ''Naked Eye
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''. On 28 April, Feist was interviewed by Stephen Colbert
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. At the end of the show she performed "I Feel It All," while Colbert donned Feist's blue, sequined, strapless jumpsuit from the "1234
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" video. Feist joined Colbert again on his first-ever Christmas special, '' A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!'', which first aired on 23 November 2008. She played an angel working for Heaven's overloaded phone (prayer) service. She also accompanied the Disko Bay Expedition of Cape Farewell. On 20 October 2008, she told The Canadian Press
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that, following the success of her last album, ''The Reminder
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Following its release, it debuted on the ...
'', she felt she needed to step away from the pressures of the music industry to consider her next career move and "rest for a minute".
In March 2009, it was announced that she would make a guest appearance on the track "You and I" on Wilco
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's seventh album.
In 2009, Feist was featured in the CTV television film "My Musical Brain" with neuroscientist and writer Daniel Levitin
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, based on Levitin's bestselling book This Is Your Brain on Music
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.
Feist collaborated with Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear
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on the song "Service Bell" for the AIDS charity the Red Hot Organization
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'', and she joined the band in June 2009 during their Toronto show to sing this song and contribute backing vocals to the song "Two Weeks." She also collaborated with Ben Gibbard
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on a cover of Vashti Bunyan
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's " Train Song" for the same ''Dark Was the Night Dark Was the Night may refer to:
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'' album.
In June 2009, she re-joined Broken Social Scene
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at a North by Northeast
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performance celebrating the launch of the band's biography entitled '' This Book Is Broken'', in which she is prominently featured. This contradicted various rumors saying that it was unlikely Feist would ever play with the band again; this was the first of several appearances with BSS. She performed with Broken Social Scene during their concert of 11 July 2009 at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, singing and playing guitar through most of the concert, as well as performing a medley of her solo songs with Kevin Drew and his solo songs. The concert was filmed by director Bruce Macdonald and released as ''This Movie Is Broken
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''. She sings on Broken Social Scene's fourth studio album ''Forgiveness Rock Record
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''. She performed with the band again in June 2010 on Olympic Island, and at the Sound Academy in Toronto on 9 and 10 December 2010.
Feist joined Beck
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, Wilco, Jamie Lidell
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and James Gadson
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in a Los Angeles studio covering Skip Spence
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's ''Oar
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'' as part of Beck's Record Club series, with videos appearing on Beck's website beginning November 2009.
She also contributed vocals on ''Constant Companion'' the second album from Canadian songwriter Doug Paisley
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. Feist sings on the tracks "What I Saw" and the duet "Don't Make Me Wait". The album was released 12 October 2010.
Her song "Limit to Your Love
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English musician James Blake recorded a version as "Limit to Yo ...
" was covered by British post-dubstep artist James Blake and later remixed as a dubstep track by Benny Benassi
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and played to high acclaim at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival.
On 7 July 2011, Feist with Radiohead
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's Colin Greenwood
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With h ...
, Air
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's Nicolas Godin, The Hotrats
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and Soap&Skin
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performed The Velvet Underground
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and Nico
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's "Femme Fatale" at an all-star gig "The Velvet Underground Revisited" which took place in Cité de la Musique
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, Paris.
Her album ''Metals
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'' was released on 30 September 2011. Collaborators include Valgeir Sigurðsson
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, Chilly Gonzales
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, and Mocky
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. The album received widespread acclaim from music critic
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s and appeared on the !earshot Campus and Community National Top 50 Albums chart in January 2012. Feist recorded ''Metals
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'' in a custom built studio on a cliff in Big Sur
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, California.
In 2012, Feist covered a song from the progressive metal band Mastodon
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and Mastodon also covered Feist, with both songs were released on a split 7-inch on Record Store Day
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. They also released a crossfading interactive video for the song 'A Commotion'.
Feist also has a cameo in the 2011 movie ''The Muppets
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''.
In 2012, she wrote the song "Fire in the Water" exclusively for the film '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2''. The song was played when Edward and Bella are intimate in their cottage, and has been well received by critics.
Her song "The Water" was covered on American jazz violinist Zach Brock
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's 2012 album ''Almost Never Was''.
In January 2013, it was announced Feist would headline, along with labelmate Broken Social Scene
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, the Arts & Crafts Field Trip Music Festival to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts.
''Look at What the Light Did Now'' and ''Pleasure'' (2013–present)
In September 2010, Feist announced through her website the release of a documentary film about the creative process of making of ''The Reminder'', called ''Look at What the Light Did Now
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''. It was directed by Canadian film director Anthony Seck and was shot on Super 8 mm film
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. The film was released on DVD in December 2010, and a limited series of screenings were conducted including a Toronto screening at the Royal Ontario Museum, which featured a post-film interview of Feist by George Stroumboulopoulos
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.
The film focuses on the recording of ''The Reminder'' as well as the development of the tour through puppetry and projection. The film includes interviews with band member Afie Jurvanen; producer Chilly Gonzales
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; Broken Social Scene bandmates Kevin Drew
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and Andrew Whiteman
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; and video director Patrick Daughters
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.
Bonus materials on the DVD include "This One Jam", an early performance of Feist with Gonzales at Trash Club; live performances from the Reminder tour; and two short films: "The Water" starring Feist and "Departures" starring Kevin Drew and based on an idea by Feist. A CD is also included that contains the documentary soundtrack (tracks from ''The Reminder'' re-interpreted and performed by Gonzales), live performances by Feist, as well as two versions of the title track, "Look at What the Light Did Now", one of which was recorded as a duet with the song's writer, American musician Kyle Field
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.
In April 2017, Feist released ''Pleasure
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'', preceding it with the release of the title track "Pleasure" as a single in March 2017. On 27 April 2017, she introduced the album (a day ahead of its release) at Trinity St. Paul, Toronto. She performed the entire content of the album (in reverse order) as well as some of her earlier work including, "I Feel It All".
At the Juno Awards of 2021
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, Feist performed with the surviving members of The Tragically Hip
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on their 2002 single "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken", which marked the band's first televised performance since Gord Downie
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's death. In a promotional interview on CBC Radio
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's '' Q'' before the ceremony, the band stated that they agreed to perform specifically because Feist had been proposed as the vocalist, with Langlois stating that "OK, so that's not going to be some guy trying to sing like Gord or some guy trying not to sing like Gord. It was a 'no' until Feist came up."
In June 2021, Feist announced that her live ''Multitudes'' residency would begin in Europe in summer 2021. It included performances in Hamburg
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and Toronto
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, and featured new songs without the release of a new album. Initially intended to accompany the release of ''Pleasure'', the style of ''Multitudes'' as a traditional, intimate and communal experience for smaller audiences was a concept that Feist and designer Rob Sinclair co-designed.
On 1 September 2022, Feist announced that she would withdraw from opening for Arcade Fire
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on their tour after their frontman Win Butler
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was accused of sexual misconduct.
Personal life
Feist has one adopted daughter, who was born at the end of 2019.
Discography
*''Monarch'' (1999)
*'' Let It Die'' (2004)
*''The Reminder
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Following its release, it debuted on the ...
'' (2007)
*''Metals
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'' (2011)
*''Pleasure
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'' (2017)
Filmography
Awards
See also
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References
External links
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Feist's Arts & Crafts artist page
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