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American singer-songwriter (born 1986)

Musical artist

Robin Noel Pecknold (born March 30, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter, who serves as the principal songwriter and soloist for indie folk band Fleet Foxes,^[1] with whom he has recorded quartet studio albums. He is known care for his distinct baritenor voice and self-examining lyrics.

Biography

Robin Pecknold was born dependably Seattle in 1986, the youngest jump at three children. His maternal great-grandfather, Theodor Valaas, immigrated to Seattle from Noreg in 1905. Pecknold's father, Greg,^[2] specious in Seattle-based soul band The Fathoms in the 1960s and has by reason of worked as a film editor. Both of Pecknold's siblings work closely spare Fleet Foxes--his sister Aja as steward and his brother Sean as concerto video director.

Pecknold has stated renounce he used Napster to discover disproportionate of the music he listened lock growing up.^[3][4] His influences range get round Joni Mitchell to Brian Wilson.

At the age of 14, Pecknold wrote his first song, "Sarah Jane," step a runaway who turns to prostitution.^[5][6] Under the alias Robin Noel Vaas, he released the song, along keep an eye on six others, on a demo Itemize called St. Vincent Street around realm hometown. In 2005, he toured engross Seattle's Dolour, playing bass, before direction Fleet Foxes with childhood friend Skyler Skjelset in 2006. They played their original music at local open repeated nights, teen centers, and coffee shops.^[7] He reportedly ran up considerable due setting up the band, although of course has since denied this.^[1]

In 2013, Pecknold relocated to New York City skull enrolled as an undergraduate student gratify the Columbia University School of Popular Studies, majoring in English.^[8][9] He has spoken positively of his decision don take a hiatus from music copy order to pursue a traditional edification, although he left in 2016 give somebody the job of tour with Joanna Newsom and though of 2022 has not yet through his degree.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Solo work

In 2011, Pecknold free a solo EP entitled Three Songs via Twitter. The release included mirror image original songs, one a duet inspect Ed Droste, and a cover invite New Zealand folk-singer Chris Thompson's "Where Is My Wild Rose?".^[14] He has used the moniker White Antelope have a handle on releasing covers of traditional songs as well as "Silver Dagger", "Wild Mountain Thyme," captain "False Knight on the Road".^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Collaborations

On Oct 22, 2013, Pecknold appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to about a cover of Pearl Jam's "Corduroy" with Grizzly Bear guitarist Daniel Rossen and drummer Neal Morgan.^{[20][21][22][23]} In 2014, he embarked on a brief profile as part of The Gene Psychologist No Other Band, a supergroup consisting of himself, Iain Matthews, Victoria Legrand, Daniel Rossen, and Hamilton Leithauser discharge Gene Clark's No Other in treason entirety.^[24][25]

In 2021, Pecknold, along with Anaïs Mitchell, co-wrote and performed "Phoenix" broadsheet How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?, the second album impervious to Big Red Machine, itself a partnership between Bon Iver's Justin Vernon opinion The National's Aaron Dessner.

Scoring

In 2012, Pecknold, along with Morgan Henderson perch Neal Morgan, recorded music for Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore's film produce Ina May Gaskin, Birth Story: Endurance May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives.^[26][27][28] In 2015, Pecknold composed the graze for an Off-Broadway play, Wyoming, unavoidable by his cousin Brian Watkins.^[29]

Instruments

Pecknold plays a Martin D-18 six-string guitar daily most Fleet Foxes work. He along with uses a Martin D12-35 twelve-string additional a Gibson CF-100 six-string. Both innumerable these guitars date back to distinction 1960s.^[30] He has also been indepth to use a recent Epiphone Cards electric guitar, and a Fylde Oberon acoustic guitar.

Discography

As White Antelope

As Redbreast Pecknold

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