Alice Glass

Alice Glass
Alice Glass at Popped! Music Festival 2008
Background information
Birth name	Margaret Osborn
Born	(1987-08-23) 23 August 1987 (age 29)
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Electronic
Years active	2004-present
Labels	Lies, Merok, Trouble, Lovepump, Fiction
Associated acts	Crystal Castles

Alice Glass (born Margaret Osborn 23 August 1987) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly the frontwoman of electronic band Crystal Castles, she embarked on a solo career in mid-late 2014.

Alice Glass was born in Toronto, Ontario. She was raised Catholic, attending parochial school up until junior high. At the age of fourteen she ran away from home to live in a squat community of punks under the name Vicki Vale (named after the comic book character) and started an all-girl crust-noise band called Fetus Fatale. Though she continued going to school, she dropped out before graduating. Ethan Kath, impressed by Glass's performance with the band, gave her CD-Rs with 60 instrumental tracks of which she chose 5 to write vocals for.

In 2008, before the band's interview with Now Magazine, Glass disappeared and neither Ethan nor the band's manager could contact her. Crystal Castles was infamously shut down at Glastonbury 2008 after Glass climbed a speaker stand just before "Alice Practice" and was swallowed by the crowd during "Yes No".

Glass has been known to be a dedicated performer. In March 2008, she broke two ribs in a car accident, and although doctors instructed her to take at least six weeks off to allow time to heal, she continued the tour, performing a twenty-minute set within days of the accident. Glass also performed five months' worth of shows on crutches after falling and putting a strain on an unhealed ankle injury in 2011. At the 2013 Glastonbury Festival, Crystal Castles began their set 20 minutes past the scheduled time, with Glass visibly sick and beginning "Plague" sitting with her head in her hands. According to NME, Glass had been suffering from food poisoning, but chose to perform anyway. Alice's vocal style ranges from singing, whispering, shouting, and screaming.

In October 2014, Glass announced that she was leaving Crystal Castles due to her own "professional and personal" reasons. In this announcement she noted that working within the band compromised her efforts towards "sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others". She later had a number of public disagreements with her former bandmate.

Glass released her debut single, "Stillbirth", in July 2015. The release was largely an effort to increase awareness of domestic/sexual abuse. Glass worked with anti-sexual assault organization RAINN, donating all proceeds of the song to the aid of victims of such abuse.