Remy Shand
Encyclopedia
Remy David Shand is a Canadian
R&B/soul
singer, who released his debut album, The Way I Feel
, on Motown Records
in 2002.
/English
descent and his mother was of Italian
descent. By the age of 12, Shand had learned to play the guitar
and acoustic bass. While many people during the 1980s and 1990s were influenced by early hip hop
and pop
, his father was into soul
. According to Shand, his father influenced and exposed Shand to R&B/soul acts including Steely Dan
, Marvin Gaye
, Al Green
, Herbie Hancock
, The Isley Brothers
, Stevie Wonder
and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
During his home schooling in Winnipeg, he listened to his parents' R&B, blues
and soul albums, spending a lot of time in his basement sampling retro
music. Shand's love of funk
music made him an outcast. His parents encouraged him to earn his GED, and to work on his music as a project. He also attended Garden City Collegiate
for his Grade 11 year of studies.
On March 4, 2010, Remy's mother Lana Shand died in Winnipeg, MB, after a brief battle with cancer.
in the United States
.
, during the spring of 2001 at his home in Winnipeg, performing and recording the tracks for vocals and every instrument on the album. The album features songs such as "The Colour of the Day" and "I Met Your Mercy", examples of his particular style
. Shand was quoted as saying the track "Everlasting" was the blueprint towards the content of The Way I Feel, as it was the oldest track on the album, recorded in 1998.
The Way I Feel was released on March 12, 2002, and Shand won a Juno Award
for Best R&B/Soul Recording at the 2003 Juno Awards. The album was successful in Canada and sold roughly 500,000 copies in the United States
. Shand received four Grammy nominations for his work.
In October 2003, Shand's official website stated that he was working on his second album, to be called Day In The Shade. The album has yet to be released, and since then, there has been no public information regarding Shand's whereabouts or recording projects. As of May 7, 2008, Shand's official website domain in Canada (www.remyshand.ca) had not been renewed by his record label and was registered by a domain exploitation
company. In 2009, his official website domain in the United States (www.remyshand.com) redirected users to Universal Motown's main page.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
R&B/soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
singer, who released his debut album, The Way I Feel
The Way I Feel (Remy Shand album)
The Way I Feel is Remy Shand's debut album, released in 2002.The album managed to peak at #15 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album spawned the Urban AC hit Take A Message which was released on January 15, 2002 and on the week of March 25, 2002 hit became a Top 10 hit on Urban AC...
, on Motown Records
Motown Records
Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...
in 2002.
Early years
Shand was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Doug and Lana Shand. His father was of ScottishScottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
/English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
descent and his mother was of Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
descent. By the age of 12, Shand had learned to play the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and acoustic bass. While many people during the 1980s and 1990s were influenced by early hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, his father was into soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
. According to Shand, his father influenced and exposed Shand to R&B/soul acts including Steely Dan
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
, Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
, Al Green
Al Green
Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
, The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
During his home schooling in Winnipeg, he listened to his parents' R&B, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and soul albums, spending a lot of time in his basement sampling retro
Retro
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of "retro" style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc...
music. Shand's love of funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
music made him an outcast. His parents encouraged him to earn his GED, and to work on his music as a project. He also attended Garden City Collegiate
Garden City Collegiate
Garden City Collegiate is a high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is part of the Seven Oaks School Division, and houses grades 9-12. The Garden City motto is "Participation and Excellence."...
for his Grade 11 year of studies.
Personal life
Shand was married to Maiko Watson. They were divorced in August 2009. He is now married to Leah.On March 4, 2010, Remy's mother Lana Shand died in Winnipeg, MB, after a brief battle with cancer.
Music career
At the age of 19, Shand sent a demo tape to Steve Warden. Warden then became his manager and helped to find Shand a prominent record deal. Two different labels gave Shand offers for a recording deal but he turned down the offer. Fortunately Universal Music Canada had signed Shand to a record deal with Motown RecordsMotown Records
Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
The Way I Feel
Shand began recording and mixing his debut album, The Way I FeelThe Way I Feel (Remy Shand album)
The Way I Feel is Remy Shand's debut album, released in 2002.The album managed to peak at #15 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album spawned the Urban AC hit Take A Message which was released on January 15, 2002 and on the week of March 25, 2002 hit became a Top 10 hit on Urban AC...
, during the spring of 2001 at his home in Winnipeg, performing and recording the tracks for vocals and every instrument on the album. The album features songs such as "The Colour of the Day" and "I Met Your Mercy", examples of his particular style
Music genre
A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...
. Shand was quoted as saying the track "Everlasting" was the blueprint towards the content of The Way I Feel, as it was the oldest track on the album, recorded in 1998.
The Way I Feel was released on March 12, 2002, and Shand won a Juno Award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
for Best R&B/Soul Recording at the 2003 Juno Awards. The album was successful in Canada and sold roughly 500,000 copies in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Shand received four Grammy nominations for his work.
In October 2003, Shand's official website stated that he was working on his second album, to be called Day In The Shade. The album has yet to be released, and since then, there has been no public information regarding Shand's whereabouts or recording projects. As of May 7, 2008, Shand's official website domain in Canada (www.remyshand.ca) had not been renewed by his record label and was registered by a domain exploitation
Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting , according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else...
company. In 2009, his official website domain in the United States (www.remyshand.com) redirected users to Universal Motown's main page.
Albums
| Title | |Label | |Certifications |
|---|---|---|
| The Way I Feel The Way I Feel (Remy Shand album) The Way I Feel is Remy Shand's debut album, released in 2002.The album managed to peak at #15 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album spawned the Urban AC hit Take A Message which was released on January 15, 2002 and on the week of March 25, 2002 hit became a Top 10 hit on Urban AC... |
Motown Motown Records Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit... |
|
Singles
- "Take a Message" (2002), UniversalUniversal RecordsUniversal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...
- "The Way I Feel" (2002), Universal
- "Rocksteady" (2002), Universal
- "Ripened and Consumed" (2002), Japanese edition bonus track for "The Way I Feel"
External links
- Remy Shand's official website (USA)
- http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/shand_remy/312537/album.jhtml (The Way I Feel album samples)
- http://music.aol.com/artist/remy-shand/518830/main
- Cool Lounge Tribute