Régine Chassagne
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Régine Chassagne (b. ca. 1977[1]) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.
She was born in Canada[1], her family having emigrated from Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), and she grew up in St-Lambert, a suburb of Montreal.[2] Her heritage is alluded to in the Arcade Fire song "Haiti", in which she sings, Mes cousins jamais nés hantent les nuits des Duvalier ("My never-born cousins haunt the nights of the Duvaliers").[2]
Chassagne earned a B.A. in communication studies at Concordia University in 1998[3], and went on to study jazz voice briefly at McGill University[4]. She was singing jazz at an art opening at Concordia in 2000 when Butler met her and persuaded her to join his band; after line-up changes, only the two of them were left. They married in 2003. She plays many instruments on stage, including the accordion, drums, the xylophone, hurdy-gurdy, and keyboards.
Chassagne has also been involved with a medieval band called Les Jongleurs de la Mandragore[5], and a jazz band, Azúcar. She also wrote the music for the two-minute David Uloth sketch:"The Shine" [6], and contributed to the UNICEF benefit project as part the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative, performing the song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" along with Win Butler.
[edit] References
- ^ "Drivetime with Dave", Radio Telefís Éireann, March 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.
- ^ Lorraine Carpenter. "Hot property: Montreal's next big thing, the Arcade Fire, channel familial grief and internal upheaval into an ecstatic debut album", Montreal Mirror, September 16, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-03-16. Note: this article states Chassagne was born in Haiti.
| Arcade Fire |
| Win Butler | Régine Chassagne | Richard Reed Parry | William Butler | Tim Kingsbury | Sarah Neufeld | Jeremy Gara |
| Howard Bilerman |
| Discography |
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| Arcade Fire (EP) | Funeral | Neon Bible |
| Singles |
| Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) | Neighborhood #2 (Laïka) | Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) | Cold Wind | Rebellion (Lies) | Wake Up |
| Intervention | Black Mirror | Keep the Car Running |
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