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LESLIE FEIST

solo singer / songwriter Leslie Feist ( Amherst, Nova Scotia , Canada ) Managed to be nominated for Grammy awards , and also belonged to the prominent indie band Broken Social Scene .

Feist's parents were artists . His father, Harold Feist was abstract expressionist painter and professor at the Alberta College of Art and Design and Mount Allison University, and his mother, Lyn , studied ceramics in Saskatchewan . His older brother Ben is now a software engineer in Toronto . The family moved to the maritime provinces of Canada , where he was born later Leslie . His parents divorced soon after, and Leslie , Ben and his mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan , where they lived with their grandparents, and later to Calgary, Alberta . Because of the U.S. origin of his father, Feist has dual Canadian and U.S., although on one occasion he joked in a television interview on The Colbert Report who had obtained the U.S. due to a contract clause Apple .

She aspired to write, but spent most of her childhood singing in choirs. At age 12, Feist starred with a thousand dancers in the opening ceremony of the Olympics winter Calgary. It also has two siblings, Emily and Jackson, the result of his father's second marriage.

In 1991, when he was 15 years Feist began his musical career when he created a punk band called Placebo (not to be confused with the British band Placebo ), which was the lead singer. She and the members of the band won the local contest, Battle of the Bands where they were awarded the opening slot of Infest Festival in 1993, and the acting along with the Ramones . In this concert she met Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew (her partner), with whom he formed Broken Social Scene ten years later.

In 1995, Feist was forced to take time off to recover from a problem in his vocal cords. moved to Calgary Toronto in 1996 and began guitar lessons. That same year Noah Mintz group Noah's Arkweld the lllamó to play bass in his band, even though she had never touched that instrument. In 1998, he was the rhythm guitarist for the band By Divine Right , with whom he toured until 2000.

1999 also released her debut solo album, Monarch (Lay down your jeweled head) , which was produced by Dan Kurtz , who later formed Dragonette. It consists of 10 songs, including Monarch and That's What I Say, It's Not What I mean . At this time playing a guitar JK Ledo beige 70, which gave him the name " Smoker's tooth" (Tooth smoking) because of its tone faded, and it was stolen at a concert in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000.

In 1999, Feist went home from a friend, Merrill Nisker , and began collaborating with him, acting as Peaches, by electro-punk music. Feist worked between racks in concert Peaches, in which he used a puppet to what called Bitch Lap Lap . The two went on tour United Kingdom between 2000 and 2001 of Justine Frischmann Elastica and MIA also Feist appeared as guest vocalist on The Teaches of Peaches . Feist appears in the video of Peaches , Lovertits , rubbing and suggestively licking a motorcycle. Later Feist would make a version of this song Gonzales (whom he met while on tour with Peaches , since become a regular contributor) on his album Open season (2006). In 2006, Feist contributed backing vocals on the song Give 'er appeared on the album Peaches, Impeach My Bush .

In the summer of 2001, Feist autoprodujo seven songs in his home demos titled The red and have never been marketed. He spent more than two years touring Europe by with Gonzales and in that same year, she along with a group of old friends formed the popular indie-rock group from Toronto , Broken Social Scene giving voice to some songs, being banned for the guitar by his leader Kevin Drew , and subsequently recorded You forgot it in people . While touring with Gonzales began recording new versions of her home demos Red, who later became the first major label album, Let it die , where it became known for his skill as a songwriter and innovation to the interpretation of songs by other artists. The album is a mix of jazz, bossa nova, folk-rock and sometimes with forays into disco and ballads, led by his beautiful voice, which combines original compositions with covers of other artists. After recording

Let it die, Feist moved to Paris . In Europe, she collaborated with Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience as co-author and guest vocalist on their album Riot on an empty street, in addition to writing and singing The simple story with Jane Birkin on her album Rendezvous . Your Canadian friend Buck 65 in the video, directed by the very Feist, One evening, which was nominated for Video of the Year Juno Awards 2004.

Feist toured between 2004 and 2006 America, Europe , Asia and Australia . In Canada won two Juno awards for "Best New Artist 'and' Best Alternative Rock Album" in 2004. Sales of Let it die reached half a million copies worldwide, so it awarded him a platinum album in Canada and a gold in France .

In 2005, Feist participated in the charity song for UNICEF , Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? The song Mushaboom was used in the masculine cologne ad Lacoste, as well as in the movie 500 days of summer.

In early 2006, Feist returned to Europe to record studies LaFrette a second part of Let it die with Gonzalez, Mocky, Jamie Lidell and Renaud Letang addition to the components of their group, Bryden Baird, Jesse Baird , Julian Brown of Apostle of Hustle and AFIE Jurvanen of Paso Mino. In April 2006, he released an album of remixes and collaborations with the title Open season. Feist also contributed to the vocals on two songs, La même histoire and We're all in the dance for the soundtrack of the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime .

The third solo album Feist, The Reminder , was released in Europe in April 2007 and May of that year in Canada , United States and around the world. Soon after, he undertook a world tour to promote the album, including 1234 , a song composed with Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo , which became successful world charts after appearing in a ad for the iPod nano , ranking at No. 8 in U.S. , a remarkable achievement for indie music and especially after being in the Top Ten list downloads. The success of Feist is has been recognized by various media and particularly on the cover art section of the New York Times in June 2007.

advertisement before the iPod Nano of Apple , The reminder sold about 6 000 copies per week, and 1234 reached 2 thousand downloads per week. After the announcement, the song was downloaded a total of 73 000 times and was ranked number 7 on the Hot Digital Songs list and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 list . The reminder jumped from No. 36 to 28 of the Billboard 200 list With about 20 thousand copies sold.

The videos for several of their singles were directed by Patrick Daughters , who has worked with Feist in Mushaboom video , continuing 1234, My moon, my man and I feel it all . 1234 and My moon, my man were choreographed by the famous dancer Noemi Lafrance . In the video Honey, honey appears puppet company The Old Trout Puppet Workshop .

I feel it all appeared in the British teen comedy The Inbetweeners and movies The Accidental Husband and The Women . Honey honey appeared in the series The L Word . The popular German DJ Boys Noize remixed My moon, my man for his debut album Oi Oi Oi (2007). In January 2009 Bon Iver did a cover of The park, and the song The limit to your love on the British series Skins and film The Accidental Husband .

In 2009, Feist appeared in a short film directed by the member of Broken Social Scene, Kevin Drew focused in his song The water . Feist also involved Cillian Murphy and David Fox in the discrete role of the protagonist's mother. Feist described the experience in the film as "watch a movie while you were in it."

Feist collaborated with the band Brooklyn, Grizzly Bear in the song Service bell for Red Hot Organization, Foundation for AIDS charity, which was included in the album Red Hot , Dark Was the night, joining his band in June 2009 in his performance in Toronto singing this song and accompanying vocals on the song Two weeks . He also collaborated with Ben Gibbard a cover song from Vashti Bunyan , Train song for the album Dark Was the night.

In June 2009 he met again with Broken Social Scene for action to promote the biography of the band, This book is broken, in which she has a prominent role, contradicting rumors that Feist never played with the band, and later in a group concert in Toronto the following month. In June 2009, Feist joined Beck, Wilco , Jamie Lidell and James Gadson in a study of Los Angeles to version Oar of Skip Spence to be part of the series Record Club of Beck, beginning to appear on the website of Beck from November 2009. Feist also involved in the latest album from Broken Social Scene , Forgiveness rock record, released in May 2010.

One of his last collaborations was with Wilco, the Chicago group launched in 2009, his last studio album Wilco (The album) where Feist sings a duet with vocalist Jeff Tweedy theme You and I .

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Canciones recomendadas :

It's cool to love your family , The onliest , La sirena , Monarch , That's what I say, it's not what I mean , The mast (Monarch)

Gatekeeper , Mushaboom , Let it die , One evening , Lonely, lonely , When I was a young girl , Secret heart , Inside and out (Let it die)

Mushaboom (Mocky mix) , Gatekeeper (One room One hour mix) , Lonely lonely (Frisbee'd mix) , The simple story (with Jane Birkin) , Mushaboom (Postal Service mix) , One evening (VV mix) , Mushaboom (VV mix) (Open season)

I feel it all , My moon my man , The water , Sea lion woman , Past in present , The limit to your love , Honey honey , 1234 (The reminder)

Vídeos :

It's cool to love your family , Monarch , The onliest , The mast y La sirena , del primer álbum Monarch :

It's cool to love your family - Leslie Feist

Monarch - Leslie Feist

The onliest - Leslie Feist

The mast - Leslie Feist

La sirena - Leslie Feist

Mushaboom , One evening , Let it die , Secret heart e Inside out , del álbum Let it die :

Mushaboom - Leslie Feist

One evening - Leslie Feist

Let it die - Leslie Feist

Secret heart - Leslie Feist

Inside out - Leslie Feist

Mushaboom (Postal Service mix) , Lonely lonely (Frisbee'd mix) , The simple story , acompañada a la voz por Jane Birkin , y Gatekeeper (One room One hour mix) , del álbum de remixes Open season :

Mushaboom (Postal Service mix) - Leslie Feist

Lonely lonely (Frisbee'd mix) - Leslie Feist

The simple story - Leslie Feist feat. Jane Birkin

Gatekeeper (One room One hour mix) - Leslie Feist

I feel at all , My moon my man , The limit to your love , 1234 , The water y Sea lion woman , del álbum The reminder :

I feel at all - Leslie Feist