Win Butler
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Win Butler (born April 14, 1980) is the Texas-born lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band.
Born Edwin Farnham Butler III and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, Butler is the grandson of jazz guitarist Alvino Rey, a pioneer bandleader whose career spanned eight decades. His grandmother, Luise, was a member of the King Sisters, who starred in a weekly variety program on ABC called The King Family Show. His mother, Liza, played harp and sang.
At the age of 15, Butler started attending the Phillips Exeter Academy preparatory school in New Hampshire. There he played varsity basketball and club softball, and performed with several student bands, including Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Factories. He also worked with the administration to establish "Winter Thaw," in which students got a long weekend's worth of rest in the middle of typically cold, grueling New England winters. Butler was popular; his notoriety was reflected in a special section allotted to him in Exeter's yearbook, which he filled with a poem about Exeter and a photograph of him clasping the hand of Principal Tyler C. Tingley. After graduation he studied photography and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, but left after a year and ended up selling Dutch wooden clogs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Butler moved to Montreal in 2000 to attend McGill University, where he met Régine Chassagne, whose family had relocated to Montreal after escaping the war in Haiti. The pair's first encounter was at a jazz festival.
[edit] Trivia
- Contributed to the UNICEF benefit project, "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" along with his wife Régine Chassagne.
- Some have remarked that he bears an uncanny resemblance to this portrait of a young Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Measures 6' 5" in height.
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| 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 |
