Régine Chassagne

Régine Chassagne

Régine Chassagne on stage, July 2007
Background information
Birth name Régine Chassagne
Born 18 August 1977 (1977-08-18) (age 34)
Origin St-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
Genres indie rock, art rock, baroque pop
Instruments Vocals, accordion, drums, piano, xylophone, hurdy gurdy, recorders, keyboards
Years active 2000–present
Associated acts Arcade Fire

Régine Chassagne (French pronunciation: [ʁeˈʒin ʃɑˈsɑːɲ]; born 18 August 1977)[1] is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.

Life and career

Régine Chassagne is a Canadian musician born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and grew up in St-Lambert, a suburb south of Montreal.[2][3] Her parents emigrated from Haiti during the dictatorship of François Duvalier, which is alluded to in the Arcade Fire song "Haiti", in which she sings, Mes cousins jamais nés hantent les nuits de Duvalier ("My unborn cousins haunt Duvalier's nights").[4]

Chassagne earned a B.A. in communication studies at Concordia University in 1998,[5] and went on to study jazz voice briefly at McGill University.[6] 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, xylophone, hurdy-gurdy, keyboards and organ.

Chassagne has also been involved with a medieval band called Les Jongleurs de la Mandragore,[7] and a jazz band, Azúcar. She also wrote the music for the two-minute David Uloth sketch "The Shine,"[8] and contributed to the UNICEF benefit project as part of the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative, performing the song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" along with Win Butler.

References

  1. ^ Hoard, Christian (March 10, 2005). "The Fire This Time". Rolling Stone (969): pp. 59–60.  Posted in an abridged form at "The Fire This Time". rollingstone.com. February 24, 2005. Archived from the original on 2 October 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071002100404/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7047705/the_fire_this_time. Retrieved 19 October 2007. 
  2. ^ Carpenter, Lorraine. (September 16, 2004). "Hot property." Montreal Mirror. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  3. ^ "Arcade Fire talk about their music." (March 6, 2007). Radio Telefís Éireann. Retrieved March 16, 2007.
  4. ^ Hanley Bemis, Alec. (December 1, 2004). "Weddings & Funerals." LA Weekly. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  5. ^ McDonagh, Patrick. (Fall 2006). "Musical Joy." Concordia University Magazine. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  6. ^ "The Arcade Fire is red hot." (Winter 2004). McGill News. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  7. ^ "Les Jongleurs de la Mandragore." (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2007.
  8. ^ "The Shine (2002)." (n.d.). The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 19, 2007.

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Arcade Fire
Régine Chassagne • Richard Reed Parry • Win Butler • Tim Kingsbury • William Butler • Jeremy Gara • Sarah Neufeld
Colin Stetson • Owen Pallett • Kelly Pratt • Howard Bilerman • Brendan Reed • Myles Broscoe • Dane Mills • Marika Shaw
Studio albums
Funeral (2004) • Neon Bible (2007) • The Suburbs (2010)
EPs
Singles
Other singles
Films
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Fearless performed by Taylor Swift; Colbie Caillat, featured artist; Nathan Chapman & Taylor Swift, producers; Chad Carlson, Nathan Chapman & Justin Neibank, engineers/mixers; Hank Williams, mastering engineer (2010) The Suburbs performed by Arcade Fire (William Butler, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Timothy Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry); Arcade Fire & Markus Dravs, producers; Arcade Fire, Markus Dravs, Mark Lawson & Craig Silvey, engineers/mixers; George Marino, mastering engineer (2011)
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