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Also known as Leslie Feist

Canadian singer

OverviewAI-generated

Feist, born Leslie Feist on February 13, 1976, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and recording artist. She began her work period in 1991 and has resided in Regina. Feist performs in genres including pop music, indie folk, indie rock, and indie pop, playing instruments such as guitar, drum, banjo, and piano. She was educated at Mount Royal University and has worked with record labels Arts & Crafts Productions, Cherrytree Records, and Interscope Records.

Her musical career includes nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Music Video. Feist’s official website is listentofeist.com. She is also recognized for her work in the acting department.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
21 December 1945
Works
82

Top works

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Film & TV

Acting · Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada

Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian and American indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, 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…

Known for

  • Teaches of Peaches — Self2024
  • It's All Gonna Break — Self2024
  • Kings of Convenience: Back from Hibernation — Self2021
  • C'mon C'mon — Wah Vocals (voice)2021
  • The Mortal Decree — With Knife2021
  • Chilly Gonzales Presents: A Very Chilly Christmas Special — Mother2020
  • Jann — Feist2019
  • Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen — Self - Performer2018
  • Shut Up and Play the Piano — Self2018
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Canada
Active from
1976
art popcanadianchamber popelectronicfolkindie pop

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,777,668
Total plays
95,895,872

Tags

female vocalistsindiesinger-songwriterCanadianindie pop

There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Feist is Canadian singer and songwriter Leslie Feist; 2) Feist was a British drum 'n' bass artist active during the 1990s. 1) Feist is Canadian singer and songwriter Leslie Feist (born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on 13 February 1976) who performs as a solo artist and also as a member of Broken Social Scene. Because her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship. Raised in Regina and Calgary <a href="https://www.last.

via Last.fm · Feist

Quotes

  • Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
  • By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there ... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry.
  • Bring all the spaces together And all the silences ever Bring all the spaces together Come close again Be my pause before the end I miss you, oh, like a fading dreamAnd I have a feeling you know what I mean
  • I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone
  • Helping the kids out of their coatsBut wait the babies haven't been bornI'm unpacking the bags and setting upAnd planting lilacs and buttercupsBut in the meantime I've got it hardSecond floor living without a yard.
  • It may be years until the dayMy dreams will match up with my pay.

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Key facts

Born
Leslie Feist , ( 1976-02-13 ) February 13, 1976 (age 50) , Amherst, Nova Scotia , Canada
Origin
Calgary , Alberta , Canada
Genres
Indie pop folk baroque pop
Occupations
Musician singer songwriter
Instruments
Vocals guitar
Years active
1991–present
Labels
Arts & Crafts Cherrytree Interscope
Member of
Broken Social Scene
Formerly of
By Divine Right
Website
www .listentofeist .com

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer and 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 has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year awards. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Feist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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