David Usher
| David Usher | |
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Usher in May 2012
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| Background information | |
| Born |
April 24, 1966 Oxford, England |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Rock, pop, alternative rock |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Universal Music, Capitol |
| Website | davidusher |
David Usher (born April 24, 1966) is an English-born Canadian musician, best selling author, keynote speaker and activist. He is the frontman of the alternative rock band Moist.
David Usher was born in Oxford, England to a Thai Buddhist, artist Samphan Usher, and a Jewish Montrealer, Dan Usher, who is an emeritus professor of economics at Queen's University. He has lived in various places such as Malaysia, New York City, California and Thailand since early childhood, before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Usher attended Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, majoring in political science.
As a musician he has sold more than 1.4 million albums and performed all over the world. He has had #1 singles singing in English, French and Thai.
When Usher is not making music, he is equally passionate about using technology to build new and interesting businesses. His company, Cloudid Creativity Labs brings together artists, designers and programmers to work on a vast range of innovative projects, from building engagement platforms to creative consulting. Usher writes about the impact of exponentiality and the second machine age on business and society at his site Human Metrics. His book on creativity and the creative process, Let the Elephants Run, was published in 2015.
Usher has been involved in such causes as War Child Canada, White Ribbon Campaign and Amnesty International. Usher is featured in the 2001 MuchMusic special Musicians in the WarZone, a humanitarian documentary directed by filmmaker Liz Marshall. In it Usher journeys to the northern border of Thailand to visit a large Burmese refugee community. Usher is on the advisory board of McGill University’s Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas and is the founding director of Amnesty International’s Artists for Amnesty.
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