David Usher
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David Usher (born April 24, 1966) is a British-born Canadian musician, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and campaigner best known as the front man for the band Moist.
He has also released a number of solo albums.
Reimagine AI, an artificial intelligence development company, is led by Mike Coveney.
Early life
David Usher was born in Oxford, England, to Thai Buddhist artist Samphan Usher and King's University economics professor Dan Usher. Before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario, he has worked in various countries, including Malaysia, New York City, California, and Thailand. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute at the same time that Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip and Hugh Dillon of the Headstones attended the Academy. Usher studied at Queen's University for one semester before transferring to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, majoring in political science.
Personal life
In the WarZone, a humanitarian documentary directed by filmmaker Liz Marshall, he is on the northern border of Thailand to visit a large Burmese refugee community.
He and his family live in Montreal, Quebec, as of 2018.
Career
Usher was instrumental in forming the band Moist, which was made up of Usher on vocals, Mark Makoway on guitars, Kevin Young, who had moved to Vancouver from Kingston, and Paul Wilcox on drums. Usher became the band's main songwriter.
Silver, Moist's debut album, was released in 1994 and went on to achieve four-time platinum status, selling 400,000 copies in Canada. Creature, their sophomore album, was released in 1996 and has since then achieved multi-platinum success, selling over 300,000 copies.
Usher spent a year in 1998 to work on his own albums. Little Songs, his first solo album, was released. The bulk of the album was shot in David's kitchen. The album includes a song titled "Baby Skin Tattoo," which has no association with the song of the same name on Moist album Creature.
Moist released Mercedes 5 and Dime in 1999, the group's third album, which earned multi-platinum recognition. They followed this with a compilation album and DVD in 2001 titled Machine Punch Through: The Singles Collection, then embarked on a 12-year absence.
Usher continued his solo career by releasing Morning Orbit, his second solo album, which has sold 90,000 copies. As the first single, "Alone in the Universe" was released, and the album featured collaborations with several figures of the Canadian music scene, including Jagori Tanna and Bruce Gordon of The Tragically Hip, and rapper Snow. A cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" was also included on the album. When a Thai version of the album was announced, Usher was featured in Thai on two of the tracks.
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" is Usher's third solo album, Hallucinations, came out in 2003 and includes a photo of the Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next."
If God Had Curves, which includes collaborations with Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara, and Bruce Cockburn, was followed by hallucinations.
With Strange Birds (2006) and Wake Up and Say Goodbye (2008), Usher continued to release solo albums in the first decade of the 2000s. The Strange Birds collection in New York City, where Usher and his family had lived. It also includes extensive collaborations with other Moist members. Wake Up and Say Goodbye is a television show starring Quebec-based singer Marie-Mai, and the album was nominated for a Juno award.
David Usher released two more solo albums in the early 1990s before forming Moist, a German pop group. The Mile End Sessions were released in 2010, as well as Songs from the Last Day on Earth in 2012. The Mile End Sessions are based on previously released songs re-recorded in acoustic arrangements, and includes Usher's first French-language album as well as contributions from Marie-Mai and Céur de pirate. Jonathan Gallivan has also performed songs from the Last Day on Earth.
In 2013, Moist returned from a 12-year absence and released their fourth studio album, Glory Under Dangerous Skies, the following year.
Let It Play, Usher's ninth solo studio album, was released in 2016. The album includes English translations of French-Canadian songs, re-recorded originals from Usher's catalogue, as well as high-profile collaborations with artists including Marie-Mai, Alex Nevsky, Monogrenade, Karim Ouellet, Ingrid St-Pierre, Daniel Lavoie, Dominique A, and Baden Baden Baden Baden.
Usher has released more than 1.4 million albums, received four Juno awards, and performed in numerous countries, French, and Thai.
Usher is also the creator of Reimagine AI, an artificial intelligence design firm headquartered in Montreal. Reimagine AI builds virtual beings using interactive and AI technologies.
Usher is the co-creator of the Climate Clock, alongside Dr. Damon Matthews. Climateclock.net is a website that publishes climate clocks.net is a website that publishes climateclocks.net
At the Mesh Marketing conference in Toronto in 2012, Usher gave a talk about the creative process. Let the Elephants Run: A Book About Creativity and Change Everything was published in 2015.