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Raine Maida, full name Michael Anthony Maida (b. February 18, 1970) is a Canadian singer, best known as the front man of the rock band Our Lady Peace. He added Raine to his birth name as a personal statement on his pursuit of the arts. He has always written all of his band's lyrics and attributes his influences, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and U2's Bono. He is married to Chantal Kreviazuk.

His voice has been infamously defined as a mix between Geoff Tate and Billy Corgan by music critic Robert Christgau.

Our Lady Peace

Main article: Our Lady Peace
Raine Maida is the vocalist and a founding member of the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. Maida started the band with guitarist Mike Turner in 1992. He is currently the only founding member left in the band. Especially on the albums prior to Gravity, he often sung in a high, nasal falsetto voice. This trademark singing style, along with Maida's often cryptic lyrics, became one of the distinctive features of Our Lady Peace's music. After working with producer Bob Rock on the album Gravity, this changed: his voice got less nasal and became deeper, and his lyrics were less cryptic. Maida has released six albums with Our Lady Peace, plus a live album and a greatest hits collection.

Solo work

Maida released a 4 song EP called Love Hope Hero on November 14th, 2006. The EP contains the songs "One Second Chance", "Earthless", "Sex Love and Honey", and "Careful What You Wish For". The EP was sold at tours with Chantal Kreviazuk, on his website, and on iTunes. His full-length solo album The Hunter's Lullaby will be released on November 13, 2007 by the independent Kingnoise Records.[1]

Producing and writing

Maida has also been co-producing/producing music since 1999, when he co-produced Our Lady Peace's albums Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch and Spiritual Machines. He has developed numerous indie bands, including Texas based Sleepway, Lightbreak, and LA based Neuromance.

He produced 4 songs on the dance/punk band Men, Women & Children self titled debut for Warner Bros. Records.

He co-wrote and produced five tracks on Avril Lavigne's second album Under My Skin, released in 2004.

Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk contributed to Kelly Clarkson's song "Where Is Your Heart?"; Kreviazuk co-wrote it, while Maida played the guitar.[2] Maida and Kreviazuk also helped write the international hit "Walk Away", another song on Clarkson's album, Breakaway. They also co-wrote "One Minute" for Clarkson's third album, My December.

Maida and Kreviazuk contributed to the The Veronicas first album The Secret Life Of...; they wrote and produced the song "Revolution".

Maida and Kreviazuk also co-wrote "Outside of You" for Hilary Duff's 2007 release, Dignity.

The two wrote and produced both the first single and theme for Cheyenne Kimball's MTV reality show and album The Day Has Come. They wrote "Meant To Fly" for the winner of the 4th season of Canadian Idol, Eva Avila and the first single of Rex Goudie's 2nd album "Look Closer" called "You Got To Me".

Other work

Maida had a small role in a Canadian movie released in 2001, Century Hotel. He played the character Damon Riley.

Maida and Kreviazuk wrote an original song for the HBO documentary "Ithuteng."

Both Maida and Kreviazuk are strong advocates of the organization War Child. Maida produced a War Child Canada benefit album entitled Help: A Day in the Life. Maida and Kreviazuk both also co-hosted the 2006 MADD video.

Discography

Cover Date of Release Title Tracklisting Available
November 14, 2006Love Hope Hero (EP)
  1. "Sex Love and Honey"
  2. "Careful What You Wish For"
  3. "One Second Chance"
  4. "Earthless"
iTunes
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Singles

  • "Lebo's River" (with Chantal Kreviazuk, Lebo Kgasapane, and Archie Khambula) from Help: A Day in the Life.
  • "Yellow Brick Road" premiere single from The Hunter's Lullaby[3]

Personal life

Maida's parents split up when he was very young. He has a half brother named Adam, who is 18 years younger than he is. Prior to pursuing a musical career, Maida studied criminology at the University of Toronto, and prior to that attended Ridley College in St. Catharines. He married Winnipeg, Manitoba singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk in December, 1999. On January 16, 2004 their son, Rowan Michael K. Maida, was born. Their second child, a boy named Lucca Jon, was born on June 3, 2005. Raine Maida's mother, Joan Maida, is the longtime executive secretary to Conrad Black[4].

References and notes

1. ^ Chartattack.com: Raine Maida delivers the Hunter's Lullaby - retrieved September 21 2007.
2. ^ Google cache of Kelly Clarkson's official website - retrieved June 27, 2007.
3. ^ Chartattack.com: Raine Maida delivers the Hunter's Lullaby - retrieved September 21 2007.
4. ^ Westhead, Rick (2007-06-01). Black's parties 'useful' to Post: Whyte. TheStar.com. Toronto Star. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. “The 59-year-old, whose son Raine Maida is in the rock band Our Lady Peace, was openly hostile towards assistant U.S. attorney Jeff Cramer during cross-examination.

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Raine Maida | Duncan Coutts | Jeremy Taggart | Steve Mazur
Mike Turner | Chris Eacrett | Jamie Edwards | Joel Shearer | Mike Eisenstein | Jim Newell
Discography
Albums: Naveed | Clumsy | Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch | Spiritual Machines | Gravity | Live | Healthy in Paranoid Times | A Decade
"The Birdman" | "Starseed" | "Naveed" | "Hope" | "Supersatellite" | "Superman's Dead" | "Clumsy" | "Automatic Flowers" | "4 A.M." | "Carnival" | "One Man Army" | "Is Anybody Home?" | "Thief" | "In Repair" | "Life" | "Right Behind You (Mafia)" | "Somewhere out There" | "Innocent" | "Made of Steel" | "Not Enough" | "Where Are You" | "Angels/Losing/Sleep" | "Kiss on the Mouth"
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Under These Rocks and Stones • Colour Moving and Still • What if It All Means Something • Ghost Stories
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God Made Me • Believer • Wayne • Surrounded • Hands • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Feels Like Home • Before You • Dear Life • Souls • Far Away • In This Life • Time • Julia • What If It All Means Something • Weight of the World • All I Can Do • Wonderful • Ghosts Of You
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