Chris Eaton

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Chris Eaton

Background information
Born 1971
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Genre(s) Indie rock
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Novelist
Associated acts Rock Plaza Central

Chris Eaton (born 1971, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada) is the founder and lead vocalist of Toronto-based indie rock band Rock Plaza Central. He began as a solo artist, with various musicians backing him, often using musical improvisation. In 2003, the current line-up of Rock Plaza Central formed during such a gig in Toronto, and they recorded their first album in that incarnation only a month later. Their second album, Are We Not Horses, was favorably reviewed by influential music journal Pitchfork Media.

Eaton is also a published author. His first novel The Inactivist (2003), has been required reading on two university courses at McGill University in Montreal. His second novel, The Grammar Architect (2006), is a "cover" of a Thomas Hardy book, A Pair of Blue Eyes, using some of the plot, imagery, themes and even some passages of the original and creating something new and personal out of that.

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