Emily Haines

Emily Haines ( * in New Delhi, India) is a Canadian musician. She is a singer of the indie - pop band Metric and participated also features prominently on musicians collective Broken Social Scene. In 2006 she released a solo album.

Life

Haines was born in the 70s in New Delhi. Her father is the poet Paul Haines. When Emily was three years old, her parents moved with her to Toronto. Haines attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where she gets to know Amy Millan, who later became lead singer of the Stars, with which it cooperates in the first musical projects. In the following years she studied at various Canadian universities and wrote music that she recorded in 1996 on a first album, which was, however, not professionally distributed. In 1998, she meets James Shaw in New York City, where the two of them found together Metric. The line- up of the band, the drummer Joules Scott complete later -Key and bassist Josh Winstead.

Using Metric Haines takes on the album Grow Up and Blow Away, which is however not initially released due to difficulties with the former label. The second album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? , Will be released in 2003. The third Metric album "Live It Out " 2005 will be issued. The following year, appears Haines solo album Knives Do not Have Your Back. This is, musically situate, according to Haines between Elliott Smith and Robert Wyatt. Involved in the recording were Scott Minor of Sparklehorse, Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene, Evan Cranley of Stars and James Shaw of Metric. In 2009, she appeared in the video "Games for Day" by Julien Plenti ( side-project of Interpol singer Paul Banks ) as an actress with.

Publications

Complete albums played Haines with Metric and previously a solo or with the backing band The Soft Skeleton. In addition, she was involved in, among other tracks from Broken Social Scene, The Stills, The Crystal Method and Les Savy Fav.

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

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

  • 2006: Knives Do not Have Your Back (Album)
  • 2007: What Is Free to a Good Home? (EP)
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