Grimes also won the Artist of the Year Award at the 2013 Webbys. Visions won the Electronic Album of the Year Award and Grimes was nominated for the Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Junos. NME included it on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2013. appeared on a number of publications' year-end lists and is considered Grimes' breakout album. Her third studio album, Visions, was released on Januin Canada through Arbutus Records, Februin the United States through 4AD, and various dates in March 2012 elsewhere. In 2011, she collaborated with DJ/producer Blood Diamonds.įollowing extensive touring and positive reception to her first two albums and Darkbloom contribution, Grimes signed with record label 4AD in January 2012.
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 2011 Grimes released five songs on her side of the split 12" with d'Eon, Darkbloom (through both Arbutus and Hippos in Tanks). After the release of Halfaxa, she began to publicly promote her music and tour beyond Montreal. In January 2010, Grimes released her debut album, Geidi Primes, a concept album inspired by the Dune series, followed by her second album, Halfaxa, in October of the same year. Grimes performing at South by Southwest 2012 Grimes is self-taught in music and visual art. She listed "grime" for all three, without knowing what the grime music genre was. Her performer name was chosen because at the time, MySpace allowed artists to list three musical genres. In 2006, Grimes 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.Īccording to the timestamps on her original Myspace page, she began writing music under the name Grimes in 2007. Her mother, Sandy Garossino, is a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate her father, Maurice Boucher, a former banker, works "in the business side of biotech". She was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic school. She is of French Canadian (including Québécois), Italian, and German-Ukrainian descent. Grimes was born Claire Elise Boucher and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 17, 1988.
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. Visions includes the singles "Genesis" and "Oblivion" and received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year.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.
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 moving 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 extending from "lo-fi R&B" to futuristic dance-pop, and has incorporated influences from electronic music, hip hop, and rock. Vancouver, British Columbia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 Biography:Ĭlaire Elise Boucher, born March 17, 1988, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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