Feist makes beautiful and exhilerating music, The Reminder album is frankly a work of art, and Leslie Feist herself secretes charisma. But I was unaware of her impressive past, her high school band Placebo, apparently there were two bands with that name (shame the shit one became the more prominent) opened for the Ramones in 1991. It was with Placebo that she apparently almost destroyed her vocal chords, so badly that a doctor apparently told her she would never sing again!
Fortunately he turned out to be wrong (perhaps he was ex-NHS). It was during a period of recuperation that she began forming her first, acoustic based, solo music and released Monarch in 1999. She went on to be involved with Broken Social Scene (were she apparently became 'involved' with some of the members), By Divine Right and also worked and, more terrifyingly, lived with Peaches.
She can only be described as indie royalty, and her music backs that assertion up completely. Oh and apparently she was a dancer aged 12 in an olympic opening ceremony. Amazing. My very hip friend Matt actually has her first album release on a CD-R that he bought from a second hand shop in Montreal.
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