Emily Savitri Haines was born on 25 January 1974 and is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
17 Facts About Emily Haines
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Emily Haines is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene.
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Emily Haines is the daughter of Canadian poet Paul Haines; her mother founded a school for under-privileged children in India.
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Emily Haines's sister is the Canadian television journalist Avery Haines and her brother is Tim Haines, owner of Bluestreak Records in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
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Emily Haines grew up in a house rich with experimental art and musical expression and her early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and PJ Harvey.
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Emily Haines studied drama at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in Broken Social Scene.
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Emily Haines attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver between 1992 and 1993, and Montreal's Concordia University between 1995 and 1996.
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Emily Haines met James Shaw in Toronto in 1997 and began performing as a duo called "Mainstream".
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Emily Haines contributed vocals or backing vocals to songs by Broken Social Scene, Jason Collett, Stars, Delerium, K-Os, KC Accidental, The Stills, Tiesto, The Crystal Method, Rezz, and Todor Kobakov.
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Emily Haines often appears with Amy Millan as her opening act.
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Emily Haines became good friends with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson before Reed's death in 2013.
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Emily Haines contributed to Broken Social Scene's 2017 album Hug of Thunder and performed with Broken Social Scene on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 30 March 2017.
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In May 2017, Emily Haines was with Broken Social Scene in Manchester, England, the night after the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert; she attributes her ability to carry on and play after the attack to the support of former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
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In support of the album, Emily Haines toured North America in late 2017.
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Emily Haines's primary synthesizer is a Sequential Circuits Pro-One, which she has played since the band's early years.
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Emily Haines plays the tambourine, electric guitar, piano and harmonica.
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In 2017, Emily Haines partnered with House of Matriarch High Perfumery to create her own fragrance, "Siren".