“an early diet of the Spice Girls, Marilyn Manson, OutKast and Skinny Puppy drove her to build pop songs out of the harsher sonic textures she rarely heard on the radio.”
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Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her work often invokes themes of science fiction, feminism, and fantasy. She has released five studio albums.
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culture · Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer (born 1988) · musician · singer · composer · director · blogger · DJ producer · music video director · songwriter · manufacturer · painter · also Grimes, Claire Boucher, Claire Élise Boucher, Claire Elise Boucher, Lizzy Wizzy
Born 17 March 1988 · Q117970
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2026· 2 entries
“highly collaborative and [characterized by] most glorious light”
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2024· 2 entries
Grimes released a remix of Magdalena Bay's "Image"
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Grimes released a remix of a song called "Supernova", originally by K-pop group Aespa as part of "iScreaM Vol
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2023· 5 entries
Grimes collaborated with Iranian-Dutch singer Sevdaliza on the song "Nothing Lasts Forever"
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Grimes released "I Wanna Be Software", with Canadian record producer Illangelo
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Grimes released "Welcome to the Opera", along with Anyma, also known as Matteo Milleri, of the Italian duo Tale of Us
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It was announced that Grimes would feature on Caroline Polachek's song "Fly to You", alongside Dido
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2022· 3 entries
Revealed that she has twenty songs for her upcoming album and teased that the album might be divided into two albums
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Snopes rated the claim “The singer Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, unsuccessfully tried to sail the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans in a homemade houseboat.” True.
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Grimes announced her forthcoming EP titled Fairies Cum First
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2021· 8 entries
Grimes announced the title of her sixth studio album, Book 1, and released a new single titled "Player of Games"
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Grimes released a new song titled "Love" recorded in response to her separation from Elon Musk and its subsequent media attention
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Grimes appeared on a Saturday Night Live sketch as Princess Peach alongside the host, Elon Musk, as Wario
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Grimes signed with Columbia Records
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Grimes released Miss Anthropocene: Rave Edition, a remix album featuring new versions of songs on the album by artists including BloodPop, Channel Tres, Richie Hawtin, and Modeselektor, along with two remixes from her Cy
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Released album “Miss Anthropocene (rave edition)”.
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“I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we”
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Grimes and Musk "semi-separated" in September 2021.
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2020· 9 entries
Nine months after the release of her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, Grimes changed the cover art for the album on all streaming platforms
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Grimes and other associated artists, all using aliases, released a Cyberpunk 2077-themed DJ mix album on Apple Music, titled This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption ever
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Released album “This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption every day of their lives!”.
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Grimes was featured on Ashnikko's song, "Cry" from her mixtape, Demidevil
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Snopes rated the claim “Elon Musk and Grimes announced on social media that they named their newborn son "X Æ A-12 Musk."” True.
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Grimes released a music video for the song "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around" and asked fans to finish the video because it only features Grimes and a green screen
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Grimes released a music video for the song "Idoru"
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Released album “Miss Anthropocene (Spotify)”.
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Released the single "Delete Forever", which was partly inspired by the death of Lil Peep and the ongoing opioid crisis
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2019· 5 entries
Grimes released the single "4ÆM" and performed the song at the 2019 Video Game Awards in order to introduce herself as Lizzy Wizzy, a voiced character in the game Cyberpunk 2077
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Released two versions of the single "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth" On November 29, 2019, Grimes released the single "My Name Is Dark"
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Released album “Miss Anthropocene”.
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An unfinished version of the album was leaked online
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Grimes posted an advertisement for the Adidas by Stella McCartney Fall 2019 collection on Instagram, stating that she would release the first single off her upcoming album, Miss Anthropocene, on September 13, 2019
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2018· 9 entries
Grimes performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Grimes released the single, "We Appreciate Power" featuring Hana, which was described as an industrial rock and nu metal song
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Grimes was featured on "Play Destroy" by Poppy on her album Am I a Girl
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Grimes was featured on Jimmy Urine's "The Medicine Does Not Control Me" from the album, Euringer
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Was featured in a video for Apple's Behind the Mac series on their YouTube channel, with a preview of a song from her upcoming album titled "That's What the Drugs Are For", later released as "My Name Is Dark"
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Grimes was featured on "Love4Eva" by Loona yyxy, the lead single from South Korean girl group Loona's third sub-unit's debut EP Beauty & the Beat
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Grimes was featured on "Pynk", the third single from Janelle Monáe's album, Dirty Computer
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Grimes composed the theme music for Netflix's animated series Hilda
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“welp no music any time soon after all”
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2017· 3 entries
Grimes released a cover of Tegan and Sara's "Dark Come Soon" with Hana
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Grimes premiered on Tidal the high budget futuristic music video of "Venus Fly", starring herself and Janelle Monáe
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Grimes won a JUNO Award for Video of the Year, featuring "Kill V
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2016· 4 entries
Grimes with friend and collaborator Hana Pestle, more commonly known by stage name Hana, released "The Ac
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Grimes released the song "Medieval Warfare" as part of the soundtrack of the 2016 superhero film, Suicide Squad
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And the music video for "California" ("Act IV") on May 9, 2016
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Grimes co-wrote the song "Heaven" for Troye Sivan's album Blue Neighbourhood
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2015· 6 entries
Released album “Art Angels”.
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Grimes released the lead single of the album, "Flesh Without Blood", as well as a two-act music video comprising both "Flesh Without Blood" and "Life in the Vivid Dream", another song from the upcoming album
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Grimes and Bleachers released their collaboration, "Entropy" for the HBO TV show Girls
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Grimes released a self-directed video for a demo version of "Realiti" from an abandoned album
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And several publications named it the best album of the year
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Frequently identified as a feminist musician during her early career, Grimes expressed frustration with this in 2015 by stating that it "really genders [her]" in a way that she does not identify with, adding that she does not relate strongly to female gender identity.
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2014· 3 entries
Grimes was featured in the music for the remix of Haim's My Song 5
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Grimes premiered the new track "Go", produced by and featuring Blood Diamonds
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“one of the first bands I was into that was considered alternative”
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year for Visions (2013).
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Released ep “Daytrotter Studio May 23, 2013”.
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2012· 4 entries
In Canada through Arbutus Records, in the United States through 4AD, and various dates in March 2012 elsewhere
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Released album “Visions”.
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Released ep “ヴィジョンズボーナスCD”.
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Grimes has been open about her past drug use, revealing intense periods during the creation of her third album Visions in 2012, during which she "blacked out the windows and did tons of amphetamine and stayed up for three weeks and didn't eat anything".
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2011· 5 entries
Released ep “D r o m e”.
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Released ep “The Tender, Smokey Whispers of the Dance Floor: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA”.
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Released ep “Darkbloom”.
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Collaborated with DJ/producer Blood Diamonds
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Grimes released five songs on her side of the split 12" with d'Eon, Darkbloom (through both Arbutus and Hippos in Tanks)
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Halfaxa”.
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Released album “Geidi Primes”.
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On Arbutus Records, before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with the release of her 2012 album, Visions
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2007· 1 entry
Released ep “Lethe”.
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2006· 1 entry
Grimes graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School and relocated from Vancouver to Montreal to attend McGill University's joint Bachelor of Arts and Science program
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1988· 2 entries
Born 1988-03-17.
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The first child of Sandy Garossino, a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate, and Maurice Boucher, a former banker who works "in the business side of biotech"
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