At the age of 12, Feist performed as one of 1,000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the video "1234."īecause her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. She aspired to be a writer, and spent much of her youth singing in choirs. They later moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Carroll High School as well as Alternative High School. įeist's parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. Her father, Harold Feist, was 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. Leslie Feist was born on 13 February 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. 2.5 Look at What the Light Did Now and Pleasure (2013–present).2.1 Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999–2001).įeist 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. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. 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.
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Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.įeist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch.