When speaking about her preference to produce all her studio albums herself, she said, "I don't wanna be just like the face of this thing I built, I want to be the one who built it". In April 2013, Grimes posted a written statement addressing her experience as a female musician as rife with sexism and expressed disappointment that her feminist stance was often interpreted as anti-male. In August 2012, Grimes made her American television debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. In July 2012, Grimes toured as a supporting act with Diplo and Skrillex on the Full Flex Express Canadian Train Tour. In May 2012, Grimes was featured on Blood Diamonds's song "Phone Sex". They released an EP called, Sit Back, Rewind. In March 2012, Grimes collaborated with Cop Car Bonfire's Tim Lafontaine and went under the name, Membrain. Grimes went on the Visions Tour from 2012 to 2014 with supporting acts Born Gold, Myths, Elite Gymnastics, Ami Dang. Notably, this intensive recording session included a period of nine days without sleep or food and with blacked out windows, since she generally could not make music as readily during the day, and doing "tons of amphetamines" She described the writing process as being "equally enjoyable and tortuous", feeling that its difficulty contributed to its success. In interviews following the album's release, Grimes explained that she was assigned a strict deadline by which to have her third album finished far before it was complete, resulting in her recording the bulk of Visions while isolated in her Montreal apartment for three consecutive weeks. Pitchfork ranked "Oblivion" at number one on their 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far list in 2014. The album's second single, " Oblivion", was named the best song of 2012 by Pitchfork and was produced into a music video co-directed by Emily Kai Bock and Grimes. It was like I knew exactly what to do next, as if my songs were already written. I was convinced my music was a gift from God. I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. you have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks. Career 2009–2011: Career beginnings, Geidi Primes, and Halfaxa
In 2006, Boucher graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School and relocated from Vancouver to Montreal to attend McGill University focusing on neuroscience and Russian language, but left the university in early 2011 before finishing her degree.
Her mother, Sandy Garossino, is a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate her father, a former banker, works "in the business side of biotech". She was raised Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school. She is of French Canadian (including Québécois), Italian, Ukrainian, and Métis descent. 2.5 2021–present: Alter Ego, collaborations, Fairies Cum First, and Book 1īoucher was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 17, 1988.2.4 2018–2021: Miss Anthropocene and collaborations.2.1 2009–2011: Career beginnings, Geidi Primes, and Halfaxa.Outside of music, Grimes had a voice role in the 2020 action role-playing video game Cyberpunk 2077 and is a judge on the music competition game show Alter Ego. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in 2020. Following this, her fourth studio album, Art Angels, was released in 2015 and received critical praise as several publications named it the best album of the year. Visions includes the singles " Genesis" and " Oblivion" and received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year. She subsequently signed with 4AD and rose to prominence with the release of her third studio album, Visions, in 2012. She has released five studio albums.īorn and raised in Vancouver (later moved to Montreal), Grimes began releasing music independently in the late 2000s, releasing two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, in 2010 on Arbutus Records. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. Her early work has been described as " lo-fi R&B." Overall her work has been categorized as synth-pop, electropop, art pop, indie pop, dream pop, and experimental pop and also incorporates dance, hip hop, and rock. Claire Elise Boucher ( / b uː ˈ ʃ eɪ/ born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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