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Apr 8, 2023 · Laura Barton. The singer was in a Covid bubble with her painter father and young daughter, but then everything changed. She discusses why she’s no longer willing to pull her punches, and explains...
After an eventful few years, Leslie Feist, better known simply as Feist, is back with a new album, Multitudes, heavily informed by the birth of her daughter ...
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For Feist, becoming a mother has meant that life has become a collection of little moments from which to draw inspiration. "Life is reduced — it's expanded, but it contracts down to these minutiae, these little doings," she said. "This endless nauseating freedom, and autonomy beyond measure, just like hours upon hours of time to sit around and wond...
Even though being a parent means that Feist is focused on the future, she did reflect on her past — and how she came to such success. Her career is littered with collaborative moments. For example, she was a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. Before coming to Toronto, she was a mainstay in the smaller Calgary music scene of the '...
2004's Let It Die and 2007's The Remindermeant that Feist hit it big as a solo artist. But with fame came discomfort. "It was sort of a G-force and not entirely pleasant," she said. "I made a shield around me that was incredible friends." Feist hasn't lost sight of her artistry, and she says that continuing as a songwriter allows her to contend wit...
Apr 2, 2024 · When the first lockdown hit, Feist returned from L.A. with her new daughter to Toronto to be closer to family—and settled into a much quieter life than she was used to.
Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their ...
Sep 30, 2021 · At the end of 2019, Leslie Feist was finishing a tour with Bon Iver when she got the news: The baby girl she was adopting had been born and was making her way to her. Feist entered her post-tour period ready to cocoon and embrace motherhood at home in Los Angeles.
Apr 3, 2023 · Speaking via Zoom from Los Angeles, where she and her three-year-old daughter live part-time when not based in Toronto, Feist is by turns engaging, thoughtful, humble, and funny when describing her experimental writing process. Suddenly another paradox comes to mind: the genuinely low-key star.
