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OUR LADY PEACE BIOS
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The Band
Our Lady Peace formed in 1992, when guitarist Mike Turner placed an ad to a local Toronto magazine, lookingo for other musicians to join the band. Raine Maida, who would become the lead singer, answered the ad, along with the bassist Chris Eacrett, and drummer Jim Newell; Our Lady Peace was born. They recorded and filmed the video for their first demo "Out Of Here", wich was sent to a music conference held in Toronto. After that they made a three-song demo and signed a recording contract with Sony Music Canada. The name Our Lady Peace was taken from a poem written by Mark Van Doren. The band's first album, Naveed, was realesed in 1994, and sold over half a million copies. In 1997, and already with the new members, Jeremy Taggart as drummer and Duncan Coutts as bassist, the band released their second album, Clumsy, wich made their way into the canadian and american rock charts. After many tours, the band recorded their third album, Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch, wich features the jazz drummer Elvin Jones. The album is doing very well at the canadian, american and european charts. Their newest album, Spiritual Machines, will be released on December 12, 2000.
Raine Maida
Real Name:Michael Raine Maida
Date of Birth:February 18 1970,
Family: parents are divorced, he has a younger brother who is 18 years younger than him.
Education: Attended University of Toronto for a degree in criminology. When Raine was younger, he went to a private school in St.Catherines with Duncan Coutts. Later, Raine attended All Saints High School.
Influences:Middle Eastern Sounds. Sinead O'Connor
First Songs: the first song Raine learned to play was "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Jeremy Taggart
Date of Birth: April 21, 1976
Family: he has 2 brothers and one sister. Jeremy's father is also a drummer
Influences: Jazz, Miles Davis, Elvin Jones
First Song: the first song Jeremy ever learned to play was "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour
Interesting Facts: Jeremy is extremely allergic to lots of things, like hot dogs, and peanut butter...and about 9 other things!
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Mike Turner
Date of Birth: June 5,
Family:he has three older sisters
Influences:punk, The Sex Pistols
Raised in: Bradford, England
Before OLP?: Mike was working in a machine shop. Later attended U of T and got a degree in British Literature.
Other Info: Mike is, as Jeremy puts it, the "computer guy" of the band. He often takes time to visit Clumsy Congress, where he is known as emtee (his initials spelled out)
First Song: the first song Mike learned to play was "Daytripper" by the Beatles
Duncan Coutts
Real Name:Robert. Duncan is his middle name
Date of Birth: February 4, 1970
Family: An only child
Education: Attended Ryerson University in Toronto
Before OLP?: Duncan worked as a set dresser for T.V show, Due South
Influences: Duncan has a wide range of influences, including Rage Against the Machine (who is his favourite band), Tool, Page & Plant, Jeff Buckley and U2
Misc.: Duncan was the original bass player for olp, but later chose his education over the band. In 1995, Duncan returned after replacing Chris Eacrett. Duncan also plays cello, but olp were not able to encorporate that into Clumsy, because it just wasn't "OLP"
Other people who are instrumental to the music that is OLP:
Jamie Edwards-keyboards on "Happiness" and new touring member of the band, possibly to become a permanent member.
Arnold Lanni-producer for all OLP albums, and unofficial 5th member of the band.
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