Emily Haines

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Haines in 2007

Emily Haines (born January 25, 1974 in New Delhi , India ) is a Canadian musician. She is the singer of the indie pop band Metric and also took part in the musician collective Broken Social Scene . In 2006 and 2017 she released two solo albums.

Life

Haines was born in New Delhi in the 1970s . Her father is the poet Paul Haines . When Emily was three years old, her parents moved her to Toronto . Haines attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts , where she met Amy Millan, who would later become the singer of the stars , with whom she worked on her first musical projects. In the following years she studied at various Canadian universities and wrote music, which she recorded on a first album in 1996, which, however, was not distributed professionally. In 1998 she met James Shaw in New York City , where the two founded Metric together . The band's line-up is later completed by drummer Joules Scott-Key and bassist Josh Winstead.

Haines performing with Metric (2008)

With Metric, Haines recorded the album Grow Up and Blow Away , which, however, was initially not released due to difficulties with the label at the time. The second work, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? , will be released in 2003. In 2005 the third Metric album "Live It Out" was released. In the following year, Haines solo album Knives Don't Have Your Back appears . According to Haines himself, this is musically located between Elliott Smith and Robert Wyatt . Shooting included Scott Minor from Sparklehorse , Justin Peroff from Broken Social Scene, Evan Cranley from Stars and James Shaw from Metric. In 2009 she worked as an actress in the video "Games for Day" by Julien Plenti (side project of Interpol singer Paul Banks).

Publications

So far, Haines has recorded complete albums with Metric and solo or with the backing band The Soft Skeleton . She was also involved in tracks by Broken Social Scene , The Stills , The Crystal Method and Les Savy Fav , among others .

Albums with Metric

  • 2003: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
  • 2005: Live It Out
  • 2007: Grow Up and Blow Away
  • 2009: Fantasies
  • 2012: Synthetica
  • 2015: Pagans in Vegas
  • 2018: Art of Doubt

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton

  • 2006: Knives Don't Have Your Back (album)
  • 2007: What Is Free to a Good Home? ( EP )
  • 2017: Choir of the Mind (album)

Other publications

  • 2017: Siren (Perfume) in cooperation with "House of Matriarch"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography ( memento of October 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at mtv.de (accessed on May 13, 2009)
  2. ↑ Biography ( Memento from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at nme.com (accessed on May 13, 2009)
  3. ↑ Kenyon Hopkin: Emily Haines on Allmusic (accessed May 13, 2009)
  4. ↑ Credits from Allmusic (accessed May 13, 2009)

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SURNAME Haines, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian songwriter, singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi , India