Leslie Feist

Leslie Feist born February 13 1976 known mononymously as Feist is a Canadian and American indie pop singersongwriter and guitarist performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch Her subsequent studio albums Let It Die released in 2004 and The Reminder released in 2007 were critically acclaimed and commercially successful selling over 25 million copies The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations including a nomination for Best New Artist She has received 11 Juno Awards including two Artist of the Year Her fourth studio album Metals was released in 2011 In 2012 Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon releasing an interactive music video in the process She has released six studio albums as of 2023 Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony Artist of the Year Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now additionally she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Artist Leslie Feist was born on February 13 1976 in Amherst Nova Scotia Canada Her parents are both artists Her father Harold Feist was an AmericanCanadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville New Brunswick Her mother Lyn Feist was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan After their first child Ben was born the family moved to Sackville Feist is also the niece of guitarist Dan Achen who played in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had also produced for numerous artists Achen died in 2010 due to a heart attack Feists parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben Feist and their mother moved to Regina Saskatchewan where they lived with her grandparents They later moved to Calgary Alberta where she attended Bishop Carroll High School as well as Alternative High School She aspired to be a writer and spent much of her youth singing in choirs At the age of 12 Feist performed as one of 1000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics which she cites as inspiration for the video 1234 As her father is American Feist has dual CanadianUS citizenship joking later that she was given US citizenship as part of a deal with Apple In 1991 at age 15 Feist 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 She and her bandmates won a local Battle of the Bands competition and were awarded the opening slot at the festival Infest 1993 featuring the Ramones At this concert she met Brendan Canning whose band hHead performed immediately before hers and with whom she joined in Broken Social Scene ten years later Source Article Feist singer from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30