Grimes

Who is Grimes

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Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year. She earned additional praise for her 2015 album Art Angels and her 2020 album Miss Anthropocene.

She attended McGill University in Montreal where she studied Russian literature and neuroscience.

She wrote the song “Oblivion,” which became an indie sensation and was ranked #1 on Pitchfork’s Top Tracks in 2012.

Her real name is Claire Elise Boucher. She has a stepbrother who raps under the name Jay Worthy. Her stepbrother, Mac Boucher, helped produce some of her music videos. She began a relationship with Elon Musk in 2018, but the couple parted ways three years later. She and Musk welcomed a son named X Æ A-12 in 2020.

She featured Janelle Monae on her 2015 track “Venus Fly.”

Inspirational Quotes by Grimes

"If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative."

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"It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me."

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"I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow."

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"The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast."

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"If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship."

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