Artist: Feist
Genre(s):
Indie
Folk
Pop
Rock
Discography:
The Reminder
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Open Season
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Let It Die
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Mushaboom - Maxi CD
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Monarch
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Live at KCRW
Year:
Tracks: 7
She was born Leslie Feist in Calgary in the mid-'70s only goes by her last name when it comes to making music for a living. The Jhay-inspired songstress got her take up performing in a high schooling spunk dance band called Placebo (non to be upset with the U.K. new john Rock act of the same identify). After winning a engagement of the bands contest, Placebo played their first gig opening for the Ramones, and for the next cinque years, Feist perfected her john Rock shipway. Touring cross-Canada in the end took its toll on Feist. She had forced her voice so lots, she was told she'd never blab out once again. To regain focus and medical aid from some other specialiser, Feist fled her hometown to locate in Toronto in 1998. She spent six months holed up by herself in a basement with a four-track registrar. She bought a guitar as a means of temporarily replacement her voice and began crafting a natural pop legal. A year afterward, Feist was playing guitar for By Divine Right. She went on to play in front of unnumbered arena crowds as By Divine Right opened for the Tragically Hip across North America. Somewhere in betwixt touring with some of Canada's biggest acts, Feist constitute time to record and self-released her first base solo record album, 1999's Monarch butterfly (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head). After playing some littler local gigs in and around Toronto, Feist touched in with electroclash rap vixen Peaches in 2000. Peaches christened Feist Bitch Lap-Lap and from in that respect, Feist sang on and toured in support of Peaches' debut album, Teaches of Peaches. Not one to remain too long in once place, Feist united Broken Social Scene in the transcription of their soph cause, You Forgot It in People. The record album, which was released in 2002, became a critical succeeder among the indie crowds after winning a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2003. Feist had already had plans for a instant solo album by this time. When she wasn't touring North America and Europe with Broken Social Scene, Feist and Renaud Letang of Manu Chao and Chilly Gonzales went back and away 'tween Calgary, Toronto, and Paris for its transcription. Get It Die was released on Arts & Crafts in May 2004. Feist has likewise contributed vocals to workings by Kings of Convenience, Apostle of Hustle, and Jane Birkin. In 2006 she released Opened Season¸ a ingathering of remixes, collaborations, and other songs and began work on her following uncut. Recorded and assembled in one hebdomad in a rented house skinny Paris, The Reminder strike shelves in the spring of 2007.
