David Usher
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David Usher (born on April 24, 1966) is a British-born rock singer-songwriter, and renowned humanist, who lived for a number of years in Montreal, but recently moved to the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. Formerly the frontman of the Canadian band Moist, he more recently embarked on a solo career.
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He was born in Oxford to a Thai Buddhist, artist Samphan Usher and a Jewish Montrealer, Dan Usher, who is an economist at Queen's University. He has relocated to Malaysia, New York, California and Thailand since early childhood before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
Attending university at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Usher joined Moist in 1993 and their 1994 debut release, Silver, went quadruple platinum in Canada. As the lead singer of the band, he shot to stardom with his soulful voice and vaguely exotic good looks.
After releasing their multi-platinum follow-up, Creature, in 1996, he took some time during the band's hiatus to record his debut solo album, Little Songs, released in 1998. That same year he married photographer and actress Sabrina Reeves, with whom he is still living. Together they have a daughter, Coco, who was born on January 12, 2003.
After recording the album Mercedes 5 and Dime with Moist, he revived his solo career again, releasing the highly successful Morning Orbit in the summer 2001. It contains the hit single "Black Black Heart". In 2003, he released another solo album entitled Hallucinations, which matched the amount of major label albums he had recorded with Moist.
In 2005, he surpassed that number with the release of If God Had Curves. The album had a resemblance to his first solo effort Little Songs, as it is dominantly an acoustic album. This album also featured a collaboration with Tegan Quin, on the track "Hey Kids".
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- Forestfire from Little Songs (1998)
- Jesus Was My Girl from Little Songs (1998)
- St. Lawrence River from Little Songs (1999)
- Alone In The Universe from Morning Orbit (2001)
- Black Black Heart V 1.0-2.0 from Morning Orbit (2001)
- A Day In The Life from Morning Orbit (2002)
- My Way Out from Morning Orbit (2002)
- Time of Our Lives from Hallucinations (2003)
- Surfacing from Hallucinations (2003)
- Love Will Save The Day from If God Had Curves (2005)
