
After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. , additionally she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Artist. She has released six studio albums as of 2023, Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now.


In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released in 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.įeist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch.
