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Emily Savitri Haines (born 25 January 1974) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton.
Haines’ voice is the only audible instrument on “Strangle All Romance,” and she creates mesmerizing layers that drift and swirl through the title track, which includes a spoken-word part adapted from a poem by the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo.
Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. [2] The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion).
Emily Haines was born on 25 January 1974 in New Delhi, India. She is an actress and director, known for Cosmopolis (2012), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).
Mar 21, 2019 · As the story goes, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw met in summer 1997 at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. They bonded over their mutual dislike for the band they were watching, decided to date each...
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Jun 9, 2017 · In Metric, singer-songwriter Emily Haines presides over dark dance-pop, lending even the most upbeat arrangement an undercurrent of tormented melancholy.
Oct 12, 2023 · When people talk about Metric, the long-running synth-rock powered by vocalist Emily Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw, they tend to gloss over the band’s early days in New York — if New York is...
Sep 14, 2017 · Under the name Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton — a fitting moniker that evokes mortality as well as comfort — she continues her talent for soundtracking intimate emotional burdens with her...
Sep 7, 2017 · Emily Haines, Choir Of The Mind. Courtesy of the artist. Back in 2006, inspired by a rough patch in her life, Emily Haines took a break from her dance-pop band Metric and embarked on a brief...
