Robin Pecknold
Encyclopedia
Robin Noel Pecknold is an American
singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the band Fleet Foxes
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with guitarist and friend Skyler Skjelset while the two were at school. He reportedly ran up considerable debt setting up the band.
Besides his work with Fleet Foxes
, Pecknold goes under the moniker White Antelope for solo output. Also, he has started a band with sister Aja, called Rainbow Fang, and has worked with Past Lives
' Morgan Henderson
on "film score-type music".
. His grandfather, Bob Valaas, is Norwegian
. Pecknold comes from a musical background; his father played in the Seattle-based soul band The Fathoms in the 1960s and his elder sister, Aja, was a rock critic for magazine Seattle Weekly and is the band's manager.
He has said he experiences social anxiety
and in 2008 said: "I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band, because I love them, but I don't have any friends aside from that."
In 2009, he stated that he discovered virtually all of the music he listened to by using online file-sharing program Napster
. He also spoke of his support for online file-sharing and the positive effect he believes it to have on music, both as an art form and as an industry. Pecknold is a vegan.
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singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the band Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
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Biography
He formed Fleet FoxesFleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
with guitarist and friend Skyler Skjelset while the two were at school. He reportedly ran up considerable debt setting up the band.
Besides his work with Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
, Pecknold goes under the moniker White Antelope for solo output. Also, he has started a band with sister Aja, called Rainbow Fang, and has worked with Past Lives
Past Lives (band)
Past Lives is a band from Seattle, Washington. The band formed out of the breakup of The Blood Brothers in late 2007.-History:The band got their start in late 2007 after the breakup of The Blood Brothers...
' Morgan Henderson
Morgan Henderson
Morgan Henderson is the former bassist of the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers and the indie rock band Sharks Keep Moving, and the current bassist in the post-punk band Past Lives and a multi-instrumentalist with Seattle-based folk-pop group Fleet Foxes.. Henderson has also been credited for...
on "film score-type music".
Personal life
He has an older brother, Sean, and an older sister, Aja. His brother is a director and the founder of grandchildren.tv. He has directed four music videos for Fleet FoxesFleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
. His grandfather, Bob Valaas, is Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Pecknold comes from a musical background; his father played in the Seattle-based soul band The Fathoms in the 1960s and his elder sister, Aja, was a rock critic for magazine Seattle Weekly and is the band's manager.
He has said he experiences social anxiety
Social anxiety
Social anxiety is anxiety about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated or scrutinized by other people...
and in 2008 said: "I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band, because I love them, but I don't have any friends aside from that."
In 2009, he stated that he discovered virtually all of the music he listened to by using online file-sharing program Napster
Napster
Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
. He also spoke of his support for online file-sharing and the positive effect he believes it to have on music, both as an art form and as an industry. Pecknold is a vegan.