David Usher
David Usher (born on April 24, 1966) is a British-born rock singer-songwriter, and renowned humanist, who lived for a number of years in Montreal, but recently moved to the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. Formerly the frontman of the Canadian band Moist, he more recently embarked on a solo career.
Profile
David Usher was born in Oxford to an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, artist Samphan Usher and a Jewish Montrealer, Dan Usher, who is an economist at Queen's University.[1] He has relocated to Malaysia, New York, California and Thailand since early childhood before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
Attending university at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Usher joined Moist in 1993 and their 1994 debut release, Silver, went quadruple platinum in Canada. As the lead singer of the band, he shot to stardom with his soulful voice and vaguely exotic good looks.
After releasing their multi-platinum follow-up, Creature, in 1996, he took some time during the band's hiatus to record his debut solo album, Little Songs, released in 1998. That same year he married photographer and actress Sabrina Reeves, with whom he is still living. Together they have a daughter, Coco, who was born on January 10, 2003.
After recording the album Mercedes 5 and Dime with Moist, he revived his solo career again, releasing the highly successful Morning Orbit in the summer 2001. It contains the hit single "Black Black Heart". In 2003, he released another solo album entitled Hallucinations, which matched the amount of major label albums he had recorded with Moist.
In 2005, he surpassed that number with the release of If God Had Curves. The album had a resemblance to his first solo effort Little Songs, as it is dominantly an acoustic album. This album also featured a collaboration with Tegan Quin, on the track "Hey Kids".
Discography
Moist
Solo
Albums
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Little Songs 1998
contains the singles
Jesus Was My Girl
St. Lawrence River
Forestfire
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Morning Orbit 2001
contains the singles
Alone In The Universe
Black Black Heart
A Day In The Life
My Way Out
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Hallucinations 2003
contains the singles
Time Of Our Lives
Surfacing
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If God Had Curves 2005
contains the singles
Love Will Save The Day
See You Fall
Long Goodbye
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Strange Birds 2007
contains the singles
The Music
Videography
- Forestfire from Little Songs (1998)
- Jesus Was My Girl from Little Songs (1998)
- St. Lawrence River from Little Songs (1999)
- Alone In The Universe from Morning Orbit (2001)
- Black Black Heart V 1.0-2.0 from Morning Orbit (2001)
- A Day In The Life from Morning Orbit (2002)
- My Way Out from Morning Orbit (2002)
- Time of Our Lives from Hallucinations (2003)
- Surfacing from Hallucinations (2003)
- Love Will Save The Day from If God Had Curves (2005)