Grimes profile

Full name: Claire Elise Boucher
Born: 17 March 1988 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Origin: Québécois, Ukrainian, Russian and Italian descent
Instruments: vocals, synthesizer, sampler, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, violin, ukulele

Skills:
- singer
- songwriter
- producer
- sound engineer
- lyricist
- live performer
- visual artist
- music video director & editor
- dancer
- model

Main interests:
Music, visual arts, dancing, books, films, modeling, video games, internet, and others

Music taste:
http://www.last.fm/user/chairmandore/library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahnUH7wnW30
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_%28musician%29#Musical_style
http://www.pandora.com/station/2895208146671614201

Others:
- Grimes does everything in her music, from singing and songwriting to artwork and production
- nice personality, beautiful look, cares about environment issues and saving animals
- took her name from grime music after discovering the existence of the genre on Myspace
- studied ballet for 11 years
- was a goth outcast in high school
- studed neuroscience, philosophy, and Russian literature and McGill University before being dropped out for missing classes
- had some troubles in the past: drugs, 2 friends died because of overdosing drugs, sexual assault, shitty jobs, the professor who got her into a music program killed himself
- started making music when she was around the age of 22 or 23
- big Lord of the Rings, Dune, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Abbess Hildegard von Bingen and Russian literature fan
- her best friends are James Brooks, Hana, Bloodpop, Duffy, Born Gold