Emily is a daughter of
Canadian poet
Paul Haines and sister of Canadian television journalist
Avery Haines.
She was
born in
New Delhi,
India, and raised in
Canada. After settling in
Peterborough,
Ontario at the age of 3,
she grew up in a
milieu rich with experimental art and musical
expression. Paul would often make cassettes of
rare and
eclectic music for his daughter to
listen to and her
early influences included
Carla Bley,
Robert Wyatt, and later
PJ Harvey. By her teens she followed her parents'
footsteps by attending the
Etobicoke School of the Arts. There she met Amy Millan and
Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in songs for Broken Social Scene and
Stars.
Haines and Millan briefly formed their first
band around 1990 while at
Etobicoke, and with songs later written and recorded while at the
University of British Columbia in
Vancouver in 1992-1993, at
Toronto in 1995, and at
Concordia University in
Montreal in 1995-1996, Haines distributed in 1996 an
early effort with a limited number of copies.
Haines has also ventured out into a small
solo career, releasing two albums, Cut In Half and Also Double and Knives Don't Have Your Back while occasionally playing a limited amount of shows with Amy Millan as the opener. Haines' act consisted of
just herself (blindfolded), and a
piano. There are numerous leaks of some of the shows hovering around
the internet. Her
band Metric's most recently released album is entitled
Live It Out.
; "Emily Haines")
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