Win Butler

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Win Butler
File:Win Butler of Arcade Fire.jpg
Win Butler performing live in 2014.
Background information
Birth name Edwin Farnham Butler III
Born (1980-04-14) April 14, 1980 (age 44)
Truckee, California
Origin The Woodlands, Texas, US
Genres Indie rock, art rock, baroque pop
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, banjo
Years active 2000–present
Associated acts Arcade Fire, DJ Windows 98 [1]
Notable instruments
Fender Jaguar
Fender Telecaster Custom
Mosrite
Martin

Edwin Farnham "Win" Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American-Canadian lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and younger brother Will Butler are both members of the band.[2][3]

Life and career

Butler was born in Truckee, California and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, with a Mormon upbringing.[4][5] He lived in Buenos Aires before his brother Will was born.[6]

His maternal grandfather was jazz steel guitarist Alvino Rey, a pioneer bandleader whose career spanned eight decades.[7] His maternal grandmother, Luise, was a member of The King Sisters, who starred in a weekly variety program on ABC called The King Family Show. His mother, Liza Rey, who also performed on the family TV show, plays jazz harp and sings. His father, Edwin Farnham Butler II, worked as a geologist for oil conglomerate Halliburton in Houston, Texas.[8] They currently live on Mount Desert Island, Maine.[9]

At the age of 15, Butler started attending the Phillips Exeter Academy preparatory school in New Hampshire, where he lived in Abbot Hall.[10] There he played varsity basketball and club softball, and performed with several student bands. He also worked with the administration to establish "Winter Thaw," in which students got a long weekend's worth of rest in the middle of typically cold, grueling New England winters. After graduation he studied photography and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, but left after a year.

Butler moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 to attend McGill University, where he met his future wife, Régine Chassagne,[11] whom he married in 2003.[12] Butler graduated from McGill in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in religious studies.[13][14]

Butler participated in the 2005 UNICEF benefit project, "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?," along with Chassagne. The two also collaborated on the music for the Richard Kelly film The Box.[15]

On April 2, 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final concert. Arcade Fire performed on "North American Scum." During James Murphy's stumbling introduction to this song, Butler shouted out "shut up and play the hits!" Murphy immediately responded, "ladies and gentlemen, for our live record entitled 'Shut Up and Play the Hits'" and Butler's cry later became the title of the well-received documentary of the concert.[16]

In September 2011, Butler played in a charity basketball tournament in Toronto, Canada known as "Rock The Court." Several other celebrities and athletes participated, such as Matt Bonner of the San Antonio Spurs.[17]

Régine Chassagne gave birth to the couple's first child, a son, on April 21, 2013.[18]

On February 13, 2015 Win Butler participated in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game and scored 8 points and had 12 rebounds.[19]

In March 2015, Butler, along with wife and Arcade Fire band mate Régine Chassagne, attended the launch of music streaming service Tidal, and revealed themselves, along with other notable artists, as shareholders in the company.[20]

References

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  2. ↑ MP3.com Bio on Win
  3. ↑ Denver Post Article on Butler, 9/13/2007
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  6. ↑ Arcade Fire – Lollapalooza Argentina 2014
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  8. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/spontaneous-combustion-the-return-of-arcade-fire-2032996.html
  9. ↑ "Arcade Fire’s maternal spark", Portland Press Herald, Portland, ME, 26 January 2014. Retrieved on 9 April 2015.
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  13. ↑ "The Arcade Fire is red hot", McGill University Alumni Quarterly, Montreal, Winter 2008. Retrieved on 9 April 2015.
  14. ↑ "WIN BUTLER, BA’04", McGill Alumni Live 365, Montreal, 4 August 2010. Retrieved on 9 April 2015.
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External links

  • NY Times article mentioning Win Butler's slam poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.
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