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Emily Haines

Emily Haines (born c. 1974[1]) is a member of the bands Metric, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton and Broken Social Scene. She is a mezzo-soprano.

She has contributed backing vocals to albums by other Broken Social Scene members, such as Jason Collett and Kevin Drew.

Biography

Emily is the daughter of Canadian poet Paul Haines; her sister is Canadian television journalist Avery Haines and her brother is Tim Haines, owner of Bluestreak Records in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Canada. After settling in Peterborough at the age of three, she grew up in a house rich with experimental art and musical expression. Paul would often make cassettes of rare and electric music for his daughter to listen to and her early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and later PJ Harvey. By her teens she followed her parents' footsteps by attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts to study drama. There she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew (whom she briefly dated)[2], with whom she would later collaborate in songs for Broken Social Scene and Stars.

Emily Haines playing the B.C Virgin Fest at Deer Lake Park in July 2009

Haines and Millan briefly formed their first band around 1990 while at ESA, and with songs later written and recorded while at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1992–1993, at Toronto in 1995, and at Concordia University in Montreal in 1995–1996. The result was Cut in Half and Also Double distributed in 1996 with a limited number of copies.

Haines met James Shaw in Toronto, and the two of them began dating and making music. Their first collaboration was not called Metric, although it contained all the elements that would mark their later music. The two moved to New York, where they recruited their rhythm section and began recording.

Haines also has a solo career, and has released two albums, Knives Don't Have Your Back, and What Is Free to a Good Home?, under the band name Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton. Her solo work is typically more mellow and piano-based than her work with Metric — in interviews, Haines has stated that "most Metric songs I write would start out sounding the same way that Knives sounds. The only difference is that with Knives, I'm exposing my music in a more vulnerable state."

She occasionally plays a limited number of solo shows, often with Amy Millan as the opener.

Haines also appeared in the 2004 drama film Clean. She and her band, Metric, appearing as themselves, performed their song "Dead Disco" and then went backstage for a small speaking role.

Haines will make a guest appearance on Tiësto's song "Knock You Out"[3] on his new album Kaleidoscope which will be released on October 6, 2009.

Discography

Solo

Albums

EPs

Metric

Albums

EPs

DVDs

  • Live from Metropolis (2008)

Singles

Guest appearances

The following songs are credited with Emily Haines on either lead or backing vocals.

Haines made a cameo appearance on the k-os music video, "Man I Used to Be".[4] She can also be seen on The Stills music video for "Love and Death" playing a secretary. She stars in Julian Plenti's music video for the song "Games For Days".[5]

Metric is also rumored to be contributing an unreleased track called "Black Sheep" to the soundtrack for the upcoming film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.[6]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Righi, Len (9 January 2007). "Metric's Emily Haines cuts a new swath with solo disc". The Morning Call (Allentown). PopWire. Retrieved 2007-11-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Indicates age 32 just prior to her 4 January 2007 tour date in Montreal.[1].
  2. ^ Berman, Stuart. This Book Is Broken. 2009
  3. ^ http://pitchfork.com/news/36120-sigur-ross-jonsi-bloc-partys-kele-okereke-on-new-tiesto-album/
  4. ^ Richards, Jason (10 June 2005). "NXNE: Just "be."". NOW. Retrieved 2007-11-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Direct link had access problem as of 25 November 2007.
  5. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVEcn-Y5-BE Julian Plenti - Games For Days
  6. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/27/metric-announce-plans-to-self-release-march-album/

Chan, Alvin. “Emily Haines – Pop Princess Sharpens her Knives”. MusicOMH.com. http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/emily-haines_0607.htm. Accessed July 28 2008.

Sweeny, Joey. “Indie Pop Goes Twee”. The Rock History Reader. Ed. Theo Cateforis New York: Routledge, 2007.

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