Emily Haines
| Emily Haines | |
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Haines at the 2010 Ottawa Bluesfest
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| Background information | |
| Born |
January 25, 1974 New Delhi, India |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock, new wave |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboards, piano, guitar, tambourine, harmonica |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | Last Gang Records |
| Associated acts | Metric, Broken Social Scene, Lou Reed, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton |
| Website |
emilyhaines ilovemetric |
| Notable instruments | |
| Sequential Circuits Pro-One | |
Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and under the moniker Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses a soprano vocal range.
Born in New Delhi, India and raised in Ontario, Haines grew up as a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, the latter related to her American-born parents. She is the daughter of Canadian poet Paul Haines. Her sister is the Canadian television journalist Avery Haines and her brother is Tim Haines, owner of Bluestreak Records in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
After settling in Peterborough at the age of three, she grew up in a house rich with experimental art and musical expression. Paul would often make cassettes of rare and eclectic music for his daughter to listen to and her early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and later PJ Harvey. By her teens, she followed in her parents' footsteps by attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA) to study drama. There she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in Broken Social Scene (co-founded by Drew), a musical collective. During their time at ESA, Haines and Millan formed their first band together (around 1990), and she also briefly dated Drew.
Haines attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver between 1992 and 1993, and Concordia University in Montreal between 1995 and 1996. In 1996, she distributed a limited-edition album entitled Cut in Half and Also Double that included songs written and recorded during her student years.
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