Butterfly Boucher
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Butterfly Boucher performing with Ten Out of Tenn
Seattle, Washington, 4 December 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Butterfly Giselle Grace Boucher |
| Born |
2 June 1979 Adelaide, Australia |
| Genres | Rock, pop, alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer, arranger |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, piano, tambourine |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Universal, A&M, Situation Operation |
| Website | www |
Butterfly Giselle Grace Boucher /ˈbaʊtʃər/ (born 2 June 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer born in Adelaide. From the age of 15 years she played bass guitar in her older sister, Rebecca Boucher Burns (Becca)'s band Eat the Menu (later named The Mercy Bell), which issued a debut album, Whoosh, in 1996. Since mid-2000 Boucher has lived in Nashville, United States, and has released four solo albums, Flutterby (October 2003), Scary Fragile (June 2009) a self-titled album (April 2012), and a 10th-anniversary celebration of Flutterby called Happy Birthday Flutterby (23 August 2014). Since 2008 Boucher has recorded material for Ten Out of Tenn, a Nashville-based music collective. Boucher is also a member of the Pop/Rock trio Elle Macho.
Butterfly Giselle Grace Boucher was born on 2 June 1979 in Adelaide, the fourth of seven daughters. Her first name, Butterfly, was a suggestion from a friend of the family. Her parents are Vivienne, a ballet dancer, and Rodney "Rod" Boucher. Rod had a career as a professional singer/musician during the 1970s and 1980s specialising in Christian and rock music. Boucher's sisters are Danielle Boucher (later a film director, actor, production designer), Rebecca Boucher Burns (now in band Belle of the Ball), Sunshine Boucher March (a ceramicist), Eden (born ca. 1981, member of Lovers Electric, and known for clothing design as 'Eden honeydew'), Angelle (ex model and coffee barista, studying herbology), and Harmony (singer of Vuvuvultures and a Models 1 model). Her family travelled outback Australia during Boucher's early years.Her parents are French Quebecers.
From the age of 15 years, Boucher played bass guitar for Eat the Menu (later renamed The Mercy Bell), which was formed in Brisbane in 1992 by her sister Becca on lead vocals, and Josh Thomson on guitars and backing vocals. In June 1996 Eat the Menu issued an album, Whoosh, with a line-up of Boucher, Becca, Thomson on acoustic guitar, and Dale Rankine on drums.Whoosh was re-released a year later under the band's new name, The Mercy Bell. In 1998 The Mercy Bell relocated to the United States – Nashville and Los Angeles – for six months and then the United Kingdom. They had signed with Polydor, but Boucher became disillusioned working with the major label, "I don't think they did any promotion for that first record. There weren't even posters. It was like suddenly we were signed, but it didn't change anything". Plans for a second album were shelved amid wrangles with the label. While The Mercy Bell was in hiatus, Boucher was working on her solo material, initially in Stockton, UK. By mid-2000, she had returned to live in Nashville. Thomson returned to Australia and Becca remained in the UK, where she later married Benjamin Burns and by 2011 performed a travelling "lo-fi pop event", Burns Bistro.
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