Leslie Feist
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Feist performing at Coachella, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Leslie Feist |
| Born |
13 February 1976 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Origin | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Indie pop, folk, baroque pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, banjo, drums |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels | Arts & Crafts, Cherrytree, Interscope |
| Associated acts | By Divine Right, Broken Social Scene, Peaches, Chilly Gonzales, Mastodon, Kings of Convenience, Mountain Man, AroarA, Little Wings |
| Website | listentofeist |
| Notable instruments | |
| Guild Starfire | |
Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976), known professionally as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.
Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released in 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She was the top winner at the 2008 Juno Awards in Calgary with five awards, including Songwriter of the Year, Artist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Album of the Year and Single of the Year. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released on 30 September 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process.
Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now.
Leslie Feist was born on 13 February 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, is an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught at both the Alberta College of Art and Design and Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville.
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