Raine Maida
Raine Maida<tr style="text-align: center;"><td colspan="3"> Raine Maida, 2006. </td></tr> | ||
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| Background information <tr><td>Birth name</td><td colspan="2">Michael Anthony Maida</td></tr><tr><td>Born</td><td colspan="2">February 18, 1970 |
Raine Maida was born Michael Anthony Maida on February 18, 1970 in Weston, Ontario. He is the front man of the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. He changed his name to Raine in order to avoid confusion with Mike Turner, the band's former guitarist.
Maida has been co-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. In 2004, he also co-wrote and produced five tracks on Avril Lavigne's sophomore album Under My Skin.
Maida and his wife Chantal Kreviazuk contributed to Kelly Clarkson's song "Where Is Your Heart?", which Kreviazuk actually helped write. Maida and Kreviazuk also helped write "Walk Away", another song on Clarkson's album, Breakaway.
Maida and his wife also contributed to the The Veronicas first album The Secret Life Of...; they wrote and produced the song "Revolution".
Maida also had a small role in a Canadian movie released in 2001, Century Hotel. He interpreted a character named Damon Riley.
The two also helped to produce and contribute to Cheyenne Kimball's album The Day Has Come. They also wrote "Meant To Fly" for the winner of the 4th season of Canadian Idol, Eva Avila.
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 Be Careful What You Wish For. Raine will be selling this EP at tours with his wife, on his website, and on iTunes.
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.
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Solo Singles
"Lebo's River" (with Chantal Kreviazuk, Lebo Kgasapane, and Archie Khambula) from Help: A Day in the Life.
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.
External links
| Our Lady Peace |
| Raine Maida | Duncan Coutts | Jeremy Taggart | Steve Mazur |
| Mike Turner | Chris Eacrett | Jamie Edwards | Joel Shearer | Mike Eisenstein | Jim Newell |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Naveed | Clumsy | Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch | Spiritual Machines | Gravity | Live | Healthy in Paranoid Times | A Decade |
Categories
1970 births | Living people | Canadian male singers | Canadian rock singers | Canadian songwriters | People from Toronto | Ontario musicians | Falsettos