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BLP sources|date=July 2008Infobox musical artist | name = David Usher| image = David Usher 2009.jpg| caption = Usher in 2008| background = solo_singer| birth_date = Birth date and age|1966|04|24| death_date =| origin = Montreal , Quebec , Canada | genre = Rock music|Rock , Pop music|pop | years_active = 1992–present| label = Maple Music , Capitol Records|Capitol | associated_acts = Moist (Canadian band)|Moist | website = http://www.davidusher.com/ David Usher (born April 24, 1966) is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter . Formerly the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist (Canadian band)|Moist , he embarked on a solo career beginning in the late 1990s.
Biography
David Usher was born in Oxford , England to a Buddhism in Thailand|Thai Buddhist , artist Samphan Usher, and a Demographics_of_Montreal#Jewish|Jewish Montrealer , Dan Usher, who is a professor of economics at Queen's University, Canada|Queen's University . He has lived in various places such as Malaysia , New York City , California and Thailand since early childhood, before his family settled in Kingston, ON . He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute . Usher attended Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , British Columbia , majoring in political science. His degree would later influence his music career. Usher is a humanism|humanist , and has been involved in such causes as War Child (charity)|War Child Canada , White Ribbon Campaign and Amnesty International . Usher is featured in the acclaimed 2001 MuchMusic special Musicians in the WarZone , a humanitarian documentary produced by War Child Canada, directed by filmmaker Liz Marshall. In it Usher journeys to the northern border of Thailand to visit a large Burmese refugee community.
Usher married Sabrina Reeves, photographer and co- artistic director for the Bluemouth Inc. performance theatre company , in 1997. They have two daughters, Coco born January 10, 2003, and Océane Danayia born April 28, 2008.
Musical career
Moist
David Usher met his Moist (Canadian band)|Moist bandmates in 1992 while in university and their 1994 debut release, Silver (Moist album)|Silver , went quadruple platinum in Canada. Moist went on to release their multi-platinum follow-up, Creature (album)|Creature , in 1996, Mercedes 5 and Dime in 1999 and Machine Punch Through , a collection of singles, in 2001.
Solo career
Recorded in Usher's kitchen in three 10-day stretches, Little Songs , Usher's debut solo album, shines in its acoustic simplicty. Little Songs was released in April 1998 during Moist's hiatus following the release of Creature .
Following Moist's Mercedes 5 and Dime , Usher revived his solo career and released the highly successful Morning Orbit in the summer of 2001. It contains the hit singles "Alone in the Universe", as well as " Black Black Heart " which was co-produced by Jeff Martin, former frontman for the Canadian rock group The Tea Party . Other "special guests" on Morning Orbit include rapper Darrin O'Brien|Snow , Jagori Tanna and Bruce Gordon (musician)|Bruce Gordon from I Mother Earth as well as Gord Sinclair from The Tragically Hip .
In 2003, he released another solo album entitled Hallucinations (David Usher album)|Hallucinations , which features a cover track by Manic Street Preachers entitled " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next ", as well as a bonus disc which includes live tracks and one remixed track.
After Hallucinations (David Usher album)|Hallucinations , Usher left EMI in favour of a smaller record company MapleMusic , moved his family to New York, and released the predominantly acoustic If God Had Curves in 2005. This effort featured a collaboration with Tegan Quin , on the track "Hey Kids", as well as a guest guitar performance by Bruce Cockburn on the track "Long Goodbye". That same year Usher released a DVD entitled "Walk.Don't.Run", which gives us a look into the making of If God Had Curves .
Usher's fifth solo album, released in March 2007, is titled Strange Birds . It contains the popular song The Music .
Wake Up and Say Goodbye is the second single and title track from Usher's latest album released on September 23, 2008.David Usher Tour Schedule. http://www.davidusher.com/tour/, accessed feb27/08.
Kill the Lights from Wake Up and Say Goodbye (November 2008)
Je repars from The Mile End Sessions (August 2010)
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External links
http://www.davidusher.com David Usher
myspace|davidushermusic
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