Sadie Dupuis

Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis with Speedy Ortiz in 2013
Background information
Genres	Indie rock
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals
Associated acts	Speedy Ortiz, Dark Warble, Sad13, Rinong, Quilty, Ovlov, Lizzo, Very Fresh, Babement
Notable instruments
Drums, Keyboard, Bass, Banjo

Sadie Dupuis is a poet and a multi-instrumentalist and is the guitarist, lead vocalist, and lyricist for the band Speedy Ortiz and formerly for the band Quilty. In November 2016 she released a solo album, Slugger under the stage name Sad13.

Sadie Dupuis began playing music as a child through choirs and piano playing. She joined a professional choir in middle school and toured internationally with it through high school. She learned to play the guitar at the age of 13. When she was 14, she spent one year studying at Kent School, a private co-educational college preparatory school in Kent, Connecticut. She is a graduate of Shepaug Valley High School, a public, coeducational middle and high school in rural Washington, Connecticut. She is also an alumna of Buck's Rock, an educational arts camp, where she was both a student and an instructor of music, which later inspired Speedy Ortiz to fundraise for Girls Rock Camp.

Dupuis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for two years. She pursued dual degrees in mathematics and music before becoming interested in the school newspaper and eschewing mathematics in favor of writing. After leaving MIT she completed her schooling at Barnard College with a concentration in poetry. Before becoming a full-time musician, she worked as a freelance writer as well as teaching writing and getting a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Her late father, William D. Kornreich worked as an A&R at ZE Records, Buddah Records and United Artists, and helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.