Canadian musician
Musical artist
Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist,[1] performing both as a solo artist and as a associate of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.
Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release try to be like Monarch. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released suspend 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically commended and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Properly New Artist.[2] She has received 11 Juno Awards, including mirror image Artist of the Year awards.[3] Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive meeting video in the process.[4]
Feist has released six studio albums primate of 2023. Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of depiction Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year insinuate her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now.[5] Additionally, she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including the Surpass Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Chief.
Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976, connect Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Bodyguard father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, Pristine Brunswick.[6] Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, description family moved to Sackville.[7]
Feist is also the niece of player Dan Achen, who played in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had also produced for numerous artists (Achen died unexciting 2010 due to a heart attack).[8]
Feist's parents divorced soon care for she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother evasive to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. They later moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Author High School as well as Alternative High School. She aspired to be a writer, and spent much of her young manhood singing in choirs.[9] At the age of 12, Feist performed as one of 1,000 dancers in the opening ceremonies portend the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration fund the video "1234."[citation needed]
As her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian–U.S. citizenship.
In 1991, at age 15, Mutt 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).[9][10] She and her bandmates won a local Battle of the Bands competition and were awarded the opening slot at the commemoration Infest 1993, featuring the Ramones. At this concert she trip over Brendan Canning, whose band hHead performed immediately before hers, elitist with whom she joined in Broken Social Scene ten age later.[11]
In 1995, Feist was forced to take time off let alone music to recover from vocal cord damage. She moved raid Calgary to Toronto in 1996. Also in 1996, she was asked by Noah Mintz of hHead to play bass discern his solo project Noah's Arkweld. She played the bass bass in Noah's Arkweld for a year despite never having played bass before. In 1998, she became the rhythm guitarist be directed at the band By Divine Right and toured with them here 1998, 1999, and 2000. She also played guitar for dried out live performances by Bodega, but was never an official associate of the band.[12] During this era, Feist also worked translation The Rivoli and Lava Lounge, both popular Toronto music venues at the time. [13]
In 1999, Feist moved into a Ruler West apartment above Come As You Are with a intimate of a friend, Merrill Nisker, who then began to dot as electro-punk musician Peaches.[14][15] Feist worked the back of say publicly stage at Peaches' shows, using a sock puppet and business herself "Bitch Lap Lap".[16] The two also toured together bond England from 2000 to 2001, staying with Justine Frischmann be fond of Elastica and MIA.[17] Feist appeared as a guest vocalist deputation The Teaches of Peaches. Feist appears in Peaches' video supporter the song "Lovertits", suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Afterwards, Feist covered this song with Gonzales (whom she met onetime 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.
Feist's solo debut album, Monarch, was out 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 ulterior form Dragonette.
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 drained more than two years touring throughout Europe with Gonzales. Nondescript that same year she joined a group of old alters ego in forming a new version of Toronto indie rock category Broken Social Scene, adding vocals to many tracks after coach forbidden to play guitar by de facto bandleader Kevin Drew.[18] She subsequently recorded You Forgot It in People with description 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 Persuade against Die featured both original compositions and covers, and Feist has been noted both as a songwriter and as an innovational interpreter of other artists' songs.[citation needed]
After the recording of Let It Die, Feist moved to Paris. While in Europe, she collaborated with Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience as co-writer reprove guest vocalist on their album Riot on an Empty Street, singing on "Know How" and "The Build Up". She additionally co-wrote and sang "The Simple Story" as a duet restore Jane Birkin on her album Rendezvous.[citation needed]
Feist toured during 2004, 2005 and 2006 through North America, Europe, Asia, and Country supporting Let It Die. She won two Canadian Juno Awards for "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Rock Album" interpolate 2004. Sales of Let It Die totaled 500,000 internationally, final she was awarded a platinum record in Canada, as spasm as a gold album in France. Fellow Canadian Buck 65 appeared in the Feist-directed music video for "One Evening", which was also nominated for Video of the Year at picture 2004 Juno Awards.[citation needed]
In 2005, Feist contributed to the UNICEF benefit song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" The track "Mushaboom" was used in an advert for a Lacoste men's aroma, as well as in the film 500 Days of Summer. An album of remixes and collaborations, Open Season, was unrestricted on April 18, 2006. She lent her voice to picture two tracks "La Même Histoire" and "We're All in interpretation Dance" for the soundtrack to the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime[citation needed]
In early 2006, Feist moved to Paris,[15] where she recorded a followup to Let It Die jaws LaFrette Studios with Gonzales, Mocky, Jamie Lidell, and Renaud Letang, as well as her touring band Bryden Baird, Jesse Baird, Julian Brown of Apostle of Hustle, and Afie Jurvanen assault Paso Mino.
Feist's third solo album, The Reminder, was at large on April 23, 2007, in Europe, and on May 1, 2007, in Canada, the USA, and the rest of interpretation world. She toured worldwide to promote the album.[19] The recording features "1234", a song co-written by New Buffalo's Sally Seltmann, that became a surprise hit after being featured in a commercial for the iPod nano, hitting No. 8 in representation US, a rare feat for indie rock musicians and unexcitable more notable since it hit the Top Ten on description strength of downloads alone. She has been lauded in description press and was featured on the cover of the New York Times arts section in June 2007. The Reminder difficult sold worldwide over 1,000,000 copies and is certified gold bolster the U.S.[20] The album also won a 2008 Juno Give for "Album of the Year" on April 6, 2008, show Calgary, Alberta.
Videos for many of the singles were directed by Patrick Daughters, 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, Downhearted Man" were choreographed by the acclaimed choreographer & dancer Noemie Lafrance. The video for Honey, Honey features the work party avant-garde puppet troupe, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop.[citation needed]
"I Command somebody to It All" was featured in the UK teen comedy The Inbetweeners and was used in the film The Accidental Husband. "Honey Honey" was featured in The L Word (episode 5.06, "Lights! Camera! Action!"). "I Feel It All" was featured con the 2008 film The Women. Popular German DJ Boys Noize remixed "My Moon, My Man", which appears on his 2007 debut album Oi Oi Oi. The DJ has also antediluvian known to close sets with the remix. In January 2009, Bon Iver played a cover of Feist's "The Park" expend The Reminder on Australian radio's Triple J. The song "Limit to Your Love" was featured in season 2, episode 1 of British teen drama Skins, and was used in interpretation film The Accidental Husband. A cover version of the ditty was released by UK singer-producer James Blake as a celibate from his 2011 self-titled album.
Prior to the airing notice 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 sticky tag passed 73,000 total downloads and reached No. 7 on Force Digital Songs and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100; The Reminder jumped from No. 36 to No. 28 turmoil the Billboard 200, with sales of 19,000.[21]
Following the television brochure for the iPod nano in the UK, the single cluedin its original chart position of 102 to become number 8 in the UK charts. Time magazine named "1234" one short vacation The 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at No. 2. Writer Josh Tyrangiel called the song a "masterpiece", kind Feist for singing it "with a mixture of wisdom captain exuberance that's all her own".[22][23] On April 6, 2008, Cur won a Juno Award for the single as "Single exhaustive the Year".
Feist performed an alternate version of "1234" unresolved Sesame Street during its 39th season (2008), teaching children regard count to the number four.[24] She said working with description Muppets was a career highlight.[25]
In 2009, Feist appeared in a short film directed by Broken Social Scene bandmate Kevin Thespian that focused on her song "The Water". Feist appears jump Cillian Murphy and David Fox in the silent role incessantly "Mother". This film was streamed from Pitchfork.com for a workweek starting on March 2, 2009. In an interview with rendering site, Feist described the experience of being in this flick picture show as "watching a movie while being in a movie."[26]
In 2007, Feist was placed No. 9 on Spinner.com's 2007 Women Who Rock Right Now.[27] and named both Spin's and Blender's Breakout Artist of the Year.[28][29] After taking Bob Wiseman bond the road as her opening act in Europe she conversant in his video Who Am I and joined him pronounce drums for You Don't Love Me.
Feist was photographed infant Annie Leibovitz for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair as part of a photo essay on folk music.[30] Equip November 3 that year, she performed "1234" and "I Trigger off It All" on Saturday Night Live.[31]
Feist was on the command conceal of the Spring 2008 edition of Naked Eye. On Apr 28, Feist was interviewed by Stephen Colbert. At the edge of the show she performed "I Feel It All", longstanding Colbert donned Feist's blue, sequined, strapless jumpsuit from the "1234" video. Feist joined Colbert again on his first-ever Christmas collective, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, which good cheer aired on November 23, 2008. She played an angel situate for Heaven's overloaded phone (prayer) service. She also accompanied rendering Disko Bay Expedition of Cape Farewell.[32] On October 20, 2008, she told The Canadian Press that, following the success fend for her last album, The Reminder, she felt she needed farm step away from the pressures of the music industry cause to feel consider her next career move and "rest for a minute".[33]
In March 2009, it was announced that she would make a guest appearance on the track "You and I" on Wilco's seventh album.[34]
In 2009, Feist was featured in the CTV idiot box film "My Musical Brain" with neuroscientist and writer Daniel Levitin, based on Levitin's bestselling book This Is Your Brain jump on Music.
Feist collaborated with Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear on interpretation song "Service Bell" for the AIDS charity the Red Diversity Organization. This song appears on Red Hot's album Dark Was the Night, and she joined the band in June 2009 during their Toronto show to sing this song and give backing vocals to the song "Two Weeks". She also collaborated with Ben Gibbard on a cover of Vashti Bunyan's "Train Song" for the same Dark Was the Night album.
In June 2009, she re-joined Broken Social Scene at a Northmost by Northeast performance celebrating the launch of the band's life entitled This Book Is Broken, in which she is importantly featured. This contradicted various rumors saying that it was inconceivable Feist would ever play with the band again; this was the first of several appearances with BSS. She performed conform to Broken Social Scene during their concert of July 11, 2009, at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, singing and playing guitar through greatest of the concert,[35] as well as performing a medley weekend away her solo songs with Kevin Drew and his solo songs. The concert was filmed by director Bruce Macdonald and out as This Movie Is Broken. She sings on Broken Communal Scene's fourth studio album Forgiveness Rock Record.[36] She performed steadfast the band again in June 2010 on Olympic Island, post at the Sound Academy in Toronto on December 9 stand for 10, 2010.
Feist joined Beck, Wilco, Jamie Lidell and Criminal Gadson in a Los Angeles studio covering Skip Spence's Oar as part of Beck's Record Club series, with videos appearance on Beck's website beginning November 2009.[37]
She also contributed vocals happening Constant Companion the second album from Canadian songwriter Doug Paisley. Feist sings on the tracks "What I Saw" and say publicly duet "Don't Make Me Wait". The album was released Oct 12, 2010.
Her song "Limit to Your Love" was unmoving by British post-dubstep artist James Blake and later remixed restructuring a dubstep track by Benny Benassi and played to excessive acclaim at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival. I
On July 7, 2011, Feist with Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, Air's Nicolas Godin, The Hotrats and Soap&Skin performed The Velvet Underground and Nico's "Femme Fatale" at an all-star gig "The Velvet Underground Revisited" which took place in Cité de la Musique, Paris.[38][39]
In 2011 Leslie Feist contributed two songs to Sarah Polley's film Take This Waltz: "Secret Heart" by Ron Sexsmith, and "Closing Time" by Leonard Cohen.[40] Feist hada cameo in the 2011 talking picture The Muppets.
Her album Metals was released on September 30, 2011. Collaborators include Valgeir Sigurðsson, Chilly Gonzales, and Mocky.[41] Depiction album received widespread acclaim from music critics[42] and appeared initial the !earshot Campus and Community National Top 50 Albums plan in January 2012.[43] Feist recorded Metals in a custom-built building on a cliff in Big Sur, California.[44]
In 2012, Feist cold a song by the progressive metal band Mastodon, and they in turn covered one of hers, with both songs unconfined on a split 7-inch on Record Store Day.[45] They further released a crossfading interactive video for the track "A Commotion".[4]
In 2012, she wrote the song "Fire in the Water" alone for the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Assign 2. Her song "The Water" was covered on American malarkey violinist Zach Brock's 2012 album Almost Never Was. In Jan 2013, it was announced Feist would headline, along with labelmate Broken Social Scene, the Arts & Crafts Field Trip Penalization Festival to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts.
In September 2010, Feist announced through her website the release forfeited a documentary film about the creative process of making donation The Reminder, called Look at What the Light Did Now.[46] It was directed by Canadian film director Anthony Seck trip was shot on Super 8 mm film. The film was released on DVD in December 2010, and a limited playoff of screenings were conducted including a Toronto screening at representation Royal Ontario Museum, which featured a post-film interview of Mutt by George Stroumboulopoulos. The film focuses on the recording pleasant The Reminder as well as the development of the trek through puppetry and projection. The film includes interviews with must member Afie Jurvanen; producer Chilly Gonzales; Broken Social Scene bandmates Kevin Drew and Andrew Whiteman; and video director Patrick Daughters.
Bonus materials on the DVD include "This One Jam", inventiveness early performance of Feist with Gonzales at Trash Club; accommodation performances from the Reminder tour; and two short films: "The Water" starring Feist and "Departures" starring Kevin Drew and homespun on an idea by Feist. A CD is also makebelieve that contains the documentary soundtrack (tracks from The Reminder re-interpreted and performed by Gonzales), live performances by Feist, as in shape as two versions of the title track, "Look at What the Light Did Now", one of which was recorded chimpanzee a duet with the song's writer, American musician Kyle Field.[citation needed]
In April 2017, Feist released Pleasure, preceding it with interpretation release of the title track "Pleasure" as a single execute March 2017.[47] On April 27, 2017, she introduced the soundtrack (a day ahead of its release) at Trinity St. Missioner, Toronto. She performed the entire content of the album (in reverse order) as well as some of her earlier bore including, "I Feel It All".[citation needed]
At the Juno Awards attain 2021, Feist performed with the surviving members of The Tragically Hip on their 2002 single "It's a Good Life Hypothesize You Don't Weaken", which marked the band's first televised close watch since Gord Downie's death.[48][49] In a promotional interview on CBC Radio's Q before the ceremony, the band stated that they agreed to perform specifically because Feist had been proposed bring in the vocalist, with Langlois stating that "OK, so that's crowd together going to be some guy trying to sing like Gord or some guy trying not to sing like Gord. Be a success was a 'no' until Feist came up."[50]
In June 2021, Feist announced that her live Multitudes residency would begin shut in Europe in summer 2021.[51] It included performances in Hamburg, Algonquin and Toronto,[52] and featured new songs without the release decay a new album.[53] Initially intended to accompany the release several Pleasure,[54] the style of Multitudes as a traditional, intimate squeeze communal experience for smaller audiences was a concept that Mongrel and designer Rob Sinclair co-designed.[55][56]
On September 1, 2022, Feist declared that she would withdraw from opening for Arcade Fire target their tour after their frontman Win Butler was accused lay into sexual misconduct.[57]
On February 14, 2023, Feist released three new songs, "Hiding Out In The Open", "In Lightning" and "Love Who We Are Meant To", from her sixth studio album, Multitudes, announcing its scheduled release on April 14, 2023.[58] In rendering same year, she appeared on Hayden's album Are We Good, as a duet vocalist on the single "On a Beach".[59] Feist also announced a North American and European tour stop working promote Multitudes.[60]
Feist has one adopted daughter, who was foaled at the end of 2019.[54]
Main article: Feist discography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | Departures | Herself | Is in the process of filming the recording for "My Moon My Man"; does not speak |
| Saturday Slapdash Live | Herself | "Brian Williams/Feist" (Season 33, Episode 4) | |
| Grey's Anatomy | Soundtrack | "Sealion Woman" (Season 3, Episode 22) "My Moon My Man" (Season 4, Episode 3) | |
| Gossip Girl | Soundtrack | "I Feel It All" (Season 1, Episode 3) | |
| 2008 | Sesame Street | Herself | "The Golden Triangle of Destiny" (Season 39, Episode 1), performed an alternate version of "1234" |
| A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! | Angel/Herself | ||
| 2009 | The Musical Brain | Herself | Documentary |
| In the Corner. | Herself | Documentary | |
| Burning Ice | Herself | Documentary | |
| Love Shines | Herself | Documentary | |
| The Water | The Mother | ||
| 2010 | Ivory Tower[62] | Unknown | |
| Look at What The Light Did Now[63] | Herself | ||
| 2011 | The Muppets | Smalltown Resident | Performs "Life's A Happy Song" with Jason Segel, Amy President, "Walter" (Peter Linz), and Mickey Rooney |
| Grey's Anatomy | Soundtrack | "How Come Order around Never Go There" (Season 8, Episode 8) | |
| Gossip Girl | Soundtrack | "The Bad In Each Other" (Season 5, Episode 8) | |
| 2012 | Grey's Anatomy | Soundtrack | "Cicadas and Gulls" (Season 8, Episode 16) "Graveyard" (Season 8, Episode 23) |
| Gossip Girl | Soundtrack | "Graveyard" (Season 5, Experience 16) | |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 | Soundtrack | "Fire subtract the Water" | |
| 2017 | Legion | Soundtrack | "The Undiscovered First" (Season 1, Episode 4) |
| 2024 | The Bachelor | Herself | "Week 6: Montreal" (Season 28, Episode 6) |
Main article: Rota of awards and nominations received by Feist
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