Régine Chassagne
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Régine Chassagne (b. ca. 1977[1]) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the indie rock band The Arcade Fire, and wife of co-founder Win Butler.
She was born in Haiti, but emigrated to Canada soon afterward during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), and she grew up in St-Lambert, a suburb of Montreal.[2] Her heritage is alluded to in the Arcade Fire song "Haiti", in which she sings, Mes cousins jamais nés hantent les nuits des Duvalier ("My never-born cousins haunt the nights of Duvalier").[3]
Chassagne earned a B.A. in communications at Concordia University in 1998[4], and went on to study jazz voice briefly at McGill University[5]. She was singing jazz at an art opening at Concordia in 2000 when Butler met her and persuaded her to join his band; after line-up changes, only the two of them were left. They married in 2003. She plays many instruments on stage, including the accordion, drums, the xylophone and keyboards.
Chassagne has also been involved with a medieval band called Les Jongleurs de la Mandragore, and a jazz band, Azúcar. She also wrote the music for the two-minute David Uloth sketch:"The Shine" [6], and contributed to the UNICEF benefit project as part the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative, performing the song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" along with Win Butler.
| The Arcade Fire |
| Win Butler | Régine Chassagne | Richard Reed Parry | William Butler | Tim Kingsbury | Sarah Neufeld | Jeremy Gara |
| Howard Bilerman |
| Discography |
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| Christmas Album |The Arcade Fire (EP) | Funeral |
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