1. David Usher was born on April 24,1966 and is a Canadian musician, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and activist best known as the front man for the band Moist.
14 Facts About David Usher
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David Usher is the founder of Reimagine AI, an artificial intelligence creative studio.
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David Usher was born in Oxford, England to Thai Buddhist artist Samphan Usher and Queen's University economics professor Dan Usher.
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David Usher has lived in various places such as Malaysia, New York City, California and Thailand since early childhood, before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario.
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David Usher attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute at the same time that Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip and Hugh Dillon of the Headstones attended the school.
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In 1998, David Usher took a year to work on his own recordings.
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David Usher continued with his solo career, releasing his second solo album, Morning Orbit, which sold 90,000 copies.
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David Usher continued to release solo albums throughout the first decade of the 2000s, with Strange Birds and Wake Up and Say Goodbye.
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Strange Birds contains themes inspired by New York City, where David Usher had moved with his family.
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In 2016, David Usher released his ninth solo studio album, titled Let It Play.
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David Usher is the founder of Reimagine AI, an artificial intelligence creative studio based out of Montreal.
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David Usher is the co-creator of the Climate Clock.
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In 2012 David Usher made a presentation about the creative process at the Mesh Marketing conference in Toronto.
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David Usher is featured in the 2001 MuchMusic special Musicians in the WarZone, a humanitarian documentary directed by filmmaker Liz Marshall, in which he journeys to the northern border of Thailand to visit a large Burmese refugee community.