Feist

At 48 years old, Feist has this physical status:

Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976) is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist who has appeared as both a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock band Broken Social Scene. Feist's debut as a child in 1999 coincided with Monarch's debut.

Let It Die, 2004, and The Reminder, 2007, both of her sister bands, were critically acclaimed and commercially lucrative, with over 2.5 million copies sold.

Feist received four Grammy Awards, including a nomination for Best New Artist.

She has been nominated for 11 Juno Awards, two of the Year, two Artist of the Year.

Metals, her fourth studio album, was released in 2011.

Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon in 2012, releasing an interactive music video during the process.

Early life

Leslie Feist was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, on February 13, 1976. Both her parents are artists. Harold Feist, an American abstract expressionist painter, studied at both the Alberta College of Art and Design and Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Lyn Feist, her mother, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. The family migrated to Sackville after Ben, the family's first child. Feist is also the niece of guitarist Dan Achen, who appeared in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had worked with many artists (Achen died in 2010 due to a heart attack).

Feist's parents divorced soon after she was born, and Ben, Feist, and her mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. They then moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Carroll High School and Alternative High School. She aspired to be a writer and spent a large portion of her childhood singing in choirs. Feist, a 12-year-old girl, appeared in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the film "1234."

Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, joking later that she was granted US citizenship as part of a Apple contract.

Personal life

Feist has one adopted daughter, who was born at the end of 2019.

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Music career

Feist got her start in music in 1991 when she formed and was the lead vocalist for a Calgary punk band Placebo (not to be confused with the English band Placebo). She and her bandmates were named in the opening slot at the 1993 festival Infest, which featured the Ramones. Brendan Canning, whose band hHead appeared immediately before hers, and with whom she began in Broken Social Scene ten years ago, she met Brendan Canning, who appeared immediately before hers.

Feist was forced to take time off from music in 1995 in order to recover from vocal cord damage. In 1996, she moved from Calgary to Toronto. She was invited by Noah Mintz of hHead to play bass in his solo project Noah's Arkweld this year. Despite never having played bass before, she played bass in Noah's Arkweld for a year. She debuted in 1998 and 2000 as the rhythm guitarist for the band By Divine Right, and she toured with them throughout 1998, 1999, and 2000. She appeared onstage at some live shows by Bodega, but she was never a member of the band.

Feist and a friend of a friend, Merrill Nisker, who later performed as electro-punk musician Peaches, migrated to a Queen West apartment above Come As You Are in 1999. Feist appeared at the back of the stage at Peaches' performances, clutching a sock puppet and referring herself "Bitch Lap Lap Lap." From 2000-2001, the two boys toured together in England, many with Elastica and MIA's Justine Frischmann. Feist appeared on The Teaches of Peaches as a guest vocalist. Feist appears in Peaches' video for the song "Lovertits," suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Feist covered this song with Gonzales (whom she encountered on her album Open Season later this year). Feist performed backup vocals on a track titled "Give 'Er," which appeared on Peaches' album Impeach My Bush in 2006.

Monarch, Feist's solo debut album, was released in 1999. It's made up of ten songs, including "Monarch" and "That's What I Say"; Dan Kurtz, who would later form Dragonette, produced the album.

Feist self-produced seven songs at home, The Red Demos, which have never been released commercially. She travelled around Europe for more than two years with Gonzales. After being barred from playing guitar by de facto bandleader Kevin Drew in the same year, she joined a group of old friends in creating a new version of Toronto indie rock band Broken Social Scene, adding vocals to several songs. With the band, she subsequently recorded You Forgot It in People. They began recording new versions of her home recorded Red Demos, which would later become her major label debut Let It Die, while on tour in Europe with Gonzales. Let It Die was both original compositions and covers, and Feist has been praised both as a songwriter and an innovative interpreter of other artists' songs.

Feist went to Paris after hearing the recording of Let It Die. "Know How" and "The Build Up" co-writer and guest vocalist on their album Riot collaborated with Norwegian duoking Convenience as co-writer and guest vocalist, while in Europe. As a duet with Jane Birkin on her album Rendezvous, she co-wrote and performed "The Simple Story."

Feist toured in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia in 2004, 2005 to 2006, and Australia was a partner of Let It Die. In 2004, she received two Canadian Juno Awards for "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Rock Album." Let It Diet's revenues totaled 500, 000 people around the world, and she was given a platinum record in Canada as well as a a gold album in France. At the 2004 Juno Awards, fellow Canadian Buck 65 appeared in "One Evening," a Feist-directed music video that was also nominated for Video of the Year.

Feist performed "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en" on UNICEF's benefit album in 2005. The track "Mushaboom" was used in an advertisement for a Lacoste men's fragrance as well as in the film 500 Days of Summer.

Open Season, a collection of remixes and collaborations, was released on April 18, 2006.

In addition to the soundtrack to the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime, Feist lent her voice to the two tracks "La Même Histoire" and "We're All in the Dance."

Feist travelled to Paris in early 2006, where she recorded a sequel to Let It Die with Gonzales, Mocky, Jamie Lidell, Renaud Letang, and Renaud Letang, as well as her touring band Bryden Baird, Julian Brown of Apostle of Hustle, Afie Jurvanen of Paso Mino.

The Reminder, Feist's third solo album, was released in Europe on April 23, 2007; in Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world, it was released on May 1, 2007. She toured around the world to promote the album. "1234," a song co-written by Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo, became a surprise hit after being featured in a iPod nano commercial, debuting No. 1. The 8th in the United States, a rare feat for indie rockers and even more notable since it debuted on the strength of downloads alone. She has been lauded in the press and has appeared on the front page of the New York Times arts section in June 2007. In the United States, the Reminder had sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide and is also rated gold. On April 6, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, the album also received a 2008 Juno Award for "Album of the Year."

Patrick Daughters, who produced "Mushaboom" and went on to direct "1234," "My Moon, My Man," and "I Feel It All," were among the singles. The celebrated choreographer & dancer Noemie Lafrance choreographed "1234" and "My Moon, My Man" on her own. The Honey, Honey video features the work of the avant-garde puppet troupe The Old Trout Puppet Workshop.

In the UK teen comedy The Inbetweeners, "I Feel It All" was included in the film The Accidental Husband, "I Feel It All." In The L Word's (episode 5.06, "Lights!" "Honey Honey" was included.

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("Action!") In the 2008 film "I Feel It All" was included, "I Feel It All" was featured. Noize, a well-known German DJ, remixed "My Moon, My Man," which appears on his 2007 debut album Oi Oi Oi. With the remix, the DJ has also been known to cut sets. Bon Iver appeared on "The Park" from The Reminder on Australian radio's Triple J in January 2009. In season 2, episode 1 of British teen drama Skins, "Limit to Your Love" was included, and it was also included in the film The Accidental Husband. As a single from his 2011 self-titled album, UK singer-producer James Blake unveiled a cover version of the song.

The Reminder was selling about 6,000 copies a week and "1234" at 2,000 downloads per week before the airing of an Apple iPod nano commercial starring this artist. The song soared to No. 73,000 total downloads after the commercial, leading to No. 1 in the country. 7 on Hot Digital Songs and No. The Reminder soared from No. 8 on Billboard's Hot 100; 36 to No. With revenues of 19,000. Following the television commercial for the iPod nano in the United Kingdom, the single climbed from 102nd in the UK charts to #8 in the UK rankings. Time magazine named "1234" as one of the Top Ten Best Songs of 2007, ranked it at No. 1 in the Top ten Best Songs of 2007. 2. Josh Tyrangiel, a writer, called the album a "masterpiece" for performing it "with a mixture of wisdom and exuberance that's all her own." Feist received the Juno Award for the single on April 6, 2008, as "Single of the Year" for the single.

During its 39th season (2008), Feist produced an alternate version of "1234" on Sesame Street, instructing children to count to the number four. Working with the Muppets was a career highlight, according to Sherry.

Feist appeared in a short film directed by Broken Social Scene bandmate Kevin Drew that concentrated on her song "The Water" in 2009. In the tense role of "Mother," Feist appears alongside Cillian Murphy and David Fox. This film was streamed on Pitchfork.com for a week beginning on March 2, 2009. Feist described the experience of being in this film as "watching a movie while being in a theater."

Feist was ranked No. 1 in 2007. Spinner.com's 2007 Women Who Rock Right Now: 9 out of 10 people. Both Spin's and Blender's Breakout Artist of the Year has been selected. After taking Bob Wiseman on the road as her opening act in Europe, she performed in his film Who Am I and joined him on drums for You Don't Love Me.

Feist was photographed by Annie Leibovitz in the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair as part of a photo essay on folk music. On Saturday Night Live, she appeared on "1234" and "I Feel It All" on November 3rd this year.

Feist was on the front page of Naked Eye's Spring 2008 issue. Feist was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on April 28th. Colbert wore Feist's blue, sequined, strapless jumpsuit from the "1234" film at the end of the show, while Feist donned Feist's black, sequined, strapless jumpsuit from the "1234" film. Feist appeared on Colbert's first-ever Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, which first aired on November 23, 2008. She appeared as an angel on Heaven's overloaded phone (prayer) network. She was also accompanied on the Disko Bay Expedition of Cape Farewell. Following the success of her last album, The Reminder, she told The Canadian Press that she wanted to escape from the pressures of the music industry to consider her next career move and "rest for a minute."

It was revealed in March 2009 that she would appear on Wilco's seventh album's track "You and I" as a guest on the track "You and I."

Feist appeared in the CTV television film "My Musical Brain" with neuroscientist and writer Daniel Levitin, based on Levitin's best-selling book This Is Your Brain on Music, in 2009.

Feist performed on the song "Service Bell" for the Red Hot Organization in Brooklyn, with Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. This song appears on Red Hot's album Dark Was the Night, and she performed in June 2009 in Toronto to perform this song and contribute backing vocals to the song "Two Weeks." She also worked on a cover of Vashti Bunyan's "Train Song" for the same Dark Was the Night collection, as she collaborated with Ben Gibbard.

She revived Broken Social Scene at a North by Northeast performance in June 2009, marking the band's biography titled This Book Is Broken, in which she is prominently included. This contradicted numerous rumors that Feist would never play with the band again; this was the first of many appearances with BSS. She appeared with Broken Social Scene at their concert in Toronto's Harbourfront Centre on July 11, 2009, playing and playing guitar for the majority of the show, as well as a medley of her solo songs with Kevin Drew and his solo debuts. The concert was shot by director Bruce Macdonald and published as This Movie Is Broken. Forever Social Scene's fourth studio album Forgiveness Rocks, she performs. She appeared with the band on Olympic Island in June 2010 and on the Sound Academy in Toronto on September 9 and 10.

Feist appeared in a Los Angeles studio covering Skip Spence's Oar as part of Beck's Record Club collection, with videos appearing on Beck's website beginning in 2009.

She appeared on Constant Companion, Doug Paisley's second album. Feist appears on "What I Saw" and "Don't Make Me Wait" during the duet. The album was released on October 12, 2010.

"Limit to Your Love" by British post-dubstep musician James Blake was first released as a dubstep track by Benny Benassi and later remixed as a dubstep track at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival, earning high praise.

The Velvet Underground and Nico's "Femme Fatale" at an all-star gig in Cité de la Musique, Paris, was performed by Feist with Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, Air's Nicolas Godin, The Hotrats, and Soap&Skin.

Metals' album Metals was unveiled on September 30, 2011. Valgeir Sigursson, Chilly Gonzales, and Mocky are among the collaborators. The album received widespread support from music critics and debuted on the!earshot Campus and Community National Top 50 Albums chart in January 2012. In Big Sur, California, Feist recorded Metals in a custom-built studio on a cliff.

Feist covered Feist's song from Mastodon and Mastodon, who also covered Feist in 2012, with both songs being released on a split 7-inch on Record Store Day. They also released a crossfading interactive video for the song 'A Commotion,' as a result of time.'

Feist appears in the 2011 film The Muppets.

She wrote "Fire in the Water" specifically for the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 in 2012. Edward and Bella are close to their house and have been well received by critics.

On American jazz violinist Zach Brock's 2012 album Almost Never Was, her song "The Water" was featured.

Feist would headline the Arts & Crafts Field Trip Music Festival in January 2013 as part of their tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts.

Feist revealed in September 2010 that a documentary film about the development of The Reminder, called Look at What the Light Did Now, was released on her website. It was shot on a Super 8 mm film directed by Canadian film director Anthony Seck. The film was released on DVD in December 2010, and a limited number of screenings were held in Toronto, including a post-film interview of Feist by George Stroumboulopoulos.

The film explores The Reminder's recording as well as the tour's evolution through puppetry and projection. The film features interviews with band member Afie Jurvanen; producer Chilly Gonzales; Broken Social Scene bandmates Kevin Drew and Andrew Whiteman; and video producer Patrick Daughters.

"This One Jam" is an early version of Feist with Gonzales at Trash Club; live performances from the Reminder tour; and two short films: "The Water" starring Kevin Drew and based on an idea by Feist is included on the DVD. Also included is a CD with 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 released as a duet with artist Kyle Field (the song's writer).

Feist released Pleasure in April 2017, a precursor to the debut of the title track "Pleasure" as a single in March 2017. Trinity St. Paul, Toronto, introduced the album on April 27, 2017, a day before its unveiling). She performed the complete album (in reverse order), as well as portions of her earlier work, such as "I Feel It All."

Feist performed on their 2002 album "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken," the band's first television appearance after Gord Downie's death. The band said in a promotional interview with CBC Radio's Q before the show that they had agreed to perform specifically because Feist had been suggested as the vocalist, not some guy trying to sing like Gord or some guy who is struggling not to sing like Gord." "Ita" wasn't a 'no' until Feist came up, but it was a 'no' now.'

Feist announced in June 2021 that she would begin living Multitudes in Europe in summer 2021. It featured live shows in Hamburg, Ottawa, and Toronto as well as new songs that were not available on the Internet. Multitudes' style as a classic, personal, and communal experience for younger audiences was initially intended to accompany the introduction of Pleasure. Rob Sinclair and Feist co-designed Multitudes, a Feist and designer Rob Sinclair co-designed the look.

After losing frontman Win Butler to sexual assault, Feist's frontman Win Butler was charged with sexual assault, the singer confirmed on September 2nd that she would not return to Arcade Fire as the opening act.

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