Francis Farewell Starlite
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Starlite performing with Francis and the Lights at Webster Hall in New York City on October 12, 2010
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| Background information | |
| Born |
June 14, 1981 Oakland, California, United States |
| Genres | Pop |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | None |
| Website | farewellstarlite |
Francis Farewell Starlite is an American musician, producer, songwriter, and the frontman of the musical group Francis and the Lights. He is primarily a vocalist and a pianist. He often uses his band's name, Francis and the Lights, when crediting his solo work and contributions. Starlite has said, "There are no "members" of Francis and the Lights. It is me and whomever else is involved. Including you."
Starlite became more well known when he contributed to the writing and production of Canadian rapper Drake's song "Karaoke" from his 2010 debut album Thank Me Later. He has since become a friend of and frequent collaborator with Kanye West, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, and Chance the Rapper.
Starlite was born on June 14, 1981 in Oakland, California. He was raised in Berkeley, California, California and attended Berkeley High School, where he befriended future collaborators and Francis and the Lights members Rene Solomon and Jake Schreier. In 1999, Starlite enrolled at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Starlite befriended future Francis and the Lights collaborator Jake Rabinbach while a student at Wesleyan. Starlite attended Wesleyan from 1999 before ultimately dropping out in 2002. While at Wesleyan, they were schoolmates of MGMT's members Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser, who they have since toured with. Starlite began traveling across the United States by train in an effort to find where he was going to take his life. While on a train traveling from Elkhart, Indiana to New Orleans, Starlite came to the decision that he was going to pursue his passion of music as a career path. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2010, Starlite said, "I had played music and loved it my entire life, but hadn’t fully committed to it. And there was a moment when I wrote down the different things I could do. And then I wrote down, "I think I’ll give the band a go." Shortly afterwards, Starlite returned to his birthplace Oakland, California, where he lived and worked in a rehearsal space at Soundwave Studios and wrote songs for close to a year. Starlite subsequently drove across the U.S. in a decommissioned postal truck to New York City, where he then formed Francis and the Lights. The band rehearsed for an entire year before starting to perform through a series of invitation-only shows at a white fabric draped warehouse space.
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