Leslie Feist
Leslie Feist (born the February 13rd 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian auteure-singer . She occurs in solo under the name of Feist , and also groups some with the Broken Social Scene.
Having grown with Regina and Calgary, Feist begins the music as singer of a punk group named Placebo (which has nothing to do with its homonymous). They gain with a local springboard and gain the right to play in first part of a concert of the Ramones. After five years of a testing round, Feist is obliged to make a pause to recover its damaged voice. It settles with Toronto in 1998 and begins the Guitare; in 1999, it is the guitarist of the group By Divine Right . It starts to sing all alone and leaves its first album in solo the same year: Monarch (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head) . The album is financed by a subsidy of the Canadian government.
In 2000, Feist is joint tenant of Peaches and Gonzales, and it is invited to sing on The Teaches off Peaches . It joined then the sessions of recording of the albums of Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost and You Forgot It in People . Then it settles with Paris. In Europe, she also collaborates with the Norwegian duet Kings off Convenience, invited to sing on their album Riot one year Empty Street . She also appears on the album Gone Gone Gone of the group The New Deal, in 2003.
Feist records its second album solo Let It Die in Paris in 2002 and 2003. This album is a mixture of Jazz, of Bossa nova and Indie rock'n'roll.
At the beginning of 2006, it records a new album, with Gonzales, Mocky, Jamie Lidell and Renaud Letang: Open Season , an album of remix and collaborations, left the April 18th 2006 to the Canada.
Individual the " Mushaboom" is used as band for publicities of the perfumes Lacoste. The title " 1234" album " The Reminder" is also used as band and video for publicities of new the nano iPod of Apple, Inc. (See it video)
Discography
Albums
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Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)
- Let It Die (2004)
- Open Season (2006)
- The Reminder (2007)
Individual
- Mushaboom (2004)
- One Evening (2004)
- Inside and Out (2005)
- Secret Heart (2006, song of Ron Sexsmith)
- My Moon My Man (2007)
- 1 2 3 4 (2007)
Other participations
- "1 2 3 4" for the advertizing IPod nano
- " Get To Know The Girl" on compilation " Summer D' Amour" - Hypno Coils (2005) (under the pseudonym of Bitch Lap Lap)
- " The Ish" on the album " Party of Plaisir" - Teki Latex (2007) (under the pseudonym of Bitch Lap Lap)
- Participation in the remix of " My Moon My Man" by Boyz Noize on the EP Kitsuné 4 then on its album Oi Oi Oi.
- We' Re all in the dance & the same history on the BO of the film Paris, I love you
- It likes , duet on the album Albin of Simone - Albin of Simone
- the song of Satie & in love duets on the album Adieu sadness - Arthur H
- The simple story , duet on the album Rendez-vous - Jane Birkin
- Boomerang 2005 (like a boomerang) with Dani and Gonzales on the album Mr Gainsbourg revisited
External bonds
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ListenToFeist.com - Official site of Feist.
- PopMatters interview (11/2005)
- Arts&Crafts.ca - Feist on the site of Arts and Crafts.
- Interview of Feist on the Chachacharming.com site (in)