Katie Stelmanis
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Katie Stelmanis is a Toronto
-based Latvian-Canadian musician, who has performed and recorded both as a solo artist and with the band Austra
.
Stelmanis identifies herself as queer
.
, a collective also home to artists including Owen Pallett
. She is classically trained and began performing in the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus at age 10. She was subsequently a member of the band Galaxy, along with Maya Postepski and Emma McKenna
.
Her debut single as a solo artist, "Believe Me", was released by Loog Records
and Vice Records on 22 June 2009.
In 2008, Stelmanis appeared on Fucked Up
's album The Chemistry of Common Life
. She also contributed tracks to the compilation albums Friends in Bellwoods
and Friends in Bellwoods II
.
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
-based Latvian-Canadian musician, who has performed and recorded both as a solo artist and with the band Austra
Austra (band)
Austra is a Canadian New Wave band, fronted by singer-songwriter Katie Stelmanis.The band, also featuring Stelmanis' former Galaxy bandmate Maya Postepski and former Spiral Beach bassist Dorian Wolf, played a number of early shows under the name Private Life before learning that another band was...
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Stelmanis identifies herself as queer
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...
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Solo career
Her debut album, Join Us, was released by Blocks Recording ClubBlocks Recording Club
Blocks Recording Club is a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which serves as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.The label's name may also be cited graphically as □□□□□□ rather than the word "Blocks"...
, a collective also home to artists including Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
. She is classically trained and began performing in the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus at age 10. She was subsequently a member of the band Galaxy, along with Maya Postepski and Emma McKenna
Emma McKenna
Emma McKenna is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter. Her first full length album, Run With It, was released on June 8, 2010...
.
Her debut single as a solo artist, "Believe Me", was released by Loog Records
Loog Records
Loog Records is a British independent record label. Loog was created by former NME editor James Oldham in 2003. It is named after former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham...
and Vice Records on 22 June 2009.
In 2008, Stelmanis appeared on Fucked Up
Fucked Up
Fucked Up is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Canada. The band won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for the album The Chemistry of Common Life.-History:The band formed and played their first shows in early 2001...
's album The Chemistry of Common Life
The Chemistry of Common Life
The Chemistry of Common Life is the second full-length studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up. It was released on October 7, 2008 on Matador Records in CD and double LP formats and on Welfare Records in Reel-to-reel Audio Tapes...
. She also contributed tracks to the compilation albums Friends in Bellwoods
Friends in Bellwoods
Friends in Bellwoods is a compilation album, released in 2007. It was the first release on Out of This Spark, through a distribution deal with Sonic Unyon Records. The album is named for a house on Bellwoods Avenue in Toronto, shared by two members of the band Ohbijou, which NOW has written "might...
and Friends in Bellwoods II
Friends in Bellwoods II
Friends in Bellwoods is a compilation album, released in 2009 by Out of This Spark as a benefit for Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank. The album is a sequel to the 2007 compilation Friends in Bellwoods....
.