Grimes (musician)
Claire Elise Boucher is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and visual artist. Her music incorporates elements of varied styles and genres including art pop, synth-pop, dream pop, R&B, electronic music, and hip hop. She rose to fame with the release of her third studio album Visions in 2012. Her fourth studio album Art Angels received critical praise and was named the best album of the year by several publications. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in 2020.
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Claire Elise Boucher (born March 17, 1988) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and visual artist. Her music incorporates elements of varied styles and genres including art pop, synth-pop, dream pop, R&B, electronic music, and hip hop. She rose to fame with the release of her third studio album Visions in 2012. Her fourth studio album Art Angels received critical praise, and was named the best album of the year by several publications. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in 2020. Boucher is self-taught in music and visual art. She is of French, Italian, and Ukrainian descent and was raised Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school. In April 2013, Boucher posted a statement addressing her experience as a female musician in an industry rife with sexism and disappointment that her feminist stance was often interpreted as anti-male. On June 26, 2014, Grimes premiered a new track that had been produced by Blood Diamonds, a track that was a collaboration with Jay-Z’s management company Roc Nation. On December 17, 2013, Grimes posted to Tumblr that she had employed the services of Roc Nation to produce her new track, ‘Go’, a track she had previously recorded with d’Eon, Darkbloom. She has released two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa in 2010 on Arbutus Records. In 2011 Boucher released five songs on her side of the split 12\” with d’Eon,.
Beginning in May 2011, Grimes opened for Lykke Li on her North American Tour, and the following August her debut album was re-released through No Pain in Pop Records, in CD and vinyl format for the first time. In 2012, she signed with record label 4AD in January 2012. The subsequent release, Visions, appeared on a number of publications’ year-end lists and is considered Grimes’ breakout album. NME included it on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2013. Visions won the Electronic Album of the Year Award and Grimes was nominated for the Breakthrough Artist of the Years at the Junos. The album’s second single, \”Oblivion\”, also received critical acclaim and was produced into a music video co-directed by Emily Kai Bock and Grimes. In 2013, she released a single, ‘I Don’t Want to Be Just Like The Face of This Thing I Built’, which was a response to the #MeToo movement. In 2014, she posted a message on her Tumblr saying that she wanted to be the one who built the thing, not the face of this thing she built, and that she didn’t want to be just like the face she built. She also said that she doesn’t like being called a ‘ghetto artist’ or a ‘grime artist’ because she’s not a’soul artist’ and that her music is more about her experience than anything else.
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