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She says the thread that binds her work together is not genre but her own authorship. I feel like so many people are focused on the 70s to now. Boucher has other means of locating roads never travelled, too. Source: Grimes on Twitter , Pitchfork. Source: The Face. Source: Business Insider, Business Insider. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.

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Avery Hartmans and Paige Leskin. The couple have been dating since May , when they announced they were dating at the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, was born in Canada and is a singer, songwriter, and producer. She recently released her latest album, "Miss Anthropocene. She attended a school that specialized in creative arts, but didn't focus on music until she started attending McGill University in Montreal.

A friend persuaded Grimes to sing backing vocals for his band, and she found it incredibly easy to hit all the right notes. She had another friend show her how to use GarageBand and started recording music. Grimes has been described as an electronic-pop artist, whose music is "dark and ethereal, catchy and strange.

In , Grimes released a cassette-only album called "Geidi Primes. Eventually, she dropped out of McGill to focus on music. In , Grimes signed to the British indie label 4AD and released "Visions," which would become a breakout success. Two years later, Pitchfork named "Oblivion" the best song of the decade so far. And while all of her discography thus far carries the traits, good and bad, of a first-thought-is-best-thought writing process, Visions is her most coherent release yet.

Born in , Boucher grew up in Vancouver with four brothers, listening to the industrial rock and metal that was a staple diet for any self-respecting rebellious teen of the noughties — Marilyn Manson, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and the like.

She also sports multi-buckled leather platform boots and home-administered tattoos on her hands, including the icons from 90s sci-fi classic The Fifth Element across her knuckles. She left Vancouver when she got a place to read neuroscience and philosophy at McGill University in Montreal. Again and again in our hour together, she tells stories that display an unapologetic stubbornness, disconnection from real life and compulsive drive to do exactly as she pleases.