Emily Haines : Canadian singer and songwriter

Emily Haines : Canadian singer and songwriter

Emily Haines has spent her most formidable years as the lead singer in Metric. Metric, is the popular and eclectic indie band from Toronto, is known for deviating from the norm with their unique blend of synth pop, new-age rock, and punk influences. They have set themselves apart from the average rock band, introducing a new sound to the Canadian music scene that defies traditional labels.

Early Life

Emiy wasborn on 25 January 1974 in New Delhi, India,and raised in Fenelon Falls, Ontario.After settling in Fenelon Falls, Ontario at the age of three, she grew up in a house rich with experimental art and musical expression. Paul would often make cassettes of rare and eclectic music for his daughter to listen to and her early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and later PJ Harvey. By her teens, she followed in her parents’ footsteps by attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA) to study drama. There she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in Broken Social Scene (co-founded by Drew), a musical collective. During their time at ESA, Haines and Millan formed their first band together (around 1990), and she also briefly dated Drew.

Emily Haines’s Band

She founded the band in the year 1998 with her friends Jimmy Shaw, Initially, the duo’s name was “Mainstream”. After releasing an EP entitled Mainstream EP, they changed the band’s name to “Metric”, after a sound that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard in 1997 or 1998.Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key joined the band in 2001.

As of September 2018, Metric has released seven studio albums: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (2003), Live It Out (2005), Grow Up and Blow Away (2007, but recorded in 2001), Fantasies (2009), Synthetica (2012), Pagans in Vegas (2015), and Art of Doubt (2018).

During her time in Metric, Haines also contributed vocals or backing vocals to songs by Broken Social Scene, Jason Collett, Stars, Delerium, K-Os, KC Accidental, The Stills, Tiësto, The Crystal Method and Todor Kobakov.

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