Grimes

Grimes in Summary

Claire Elise Boucher known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music incorporates varied styles, including dream pop, synth-pop, art pop, electronic, experimental pop, R&B, and hip hop. She has released five studio albums, two extended plays, eleven singles, and four promotional singles.

Grimes Biography

Claire Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, was born and raised in Vancouver. She is of French Canadian (including Québécois), Italian, Ukrainian, and Métis descent. She was raised Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school. Her mother, Sandy Garossino, is a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate; her father, a former banker, works “in the business side of biotech”. In 2006, Boucher graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School and relocated from Vancouver to Montreal to attend McGill University focusing on neuroscience and Russian language, but left the school in early 2011 before finishing her degree.

Grimes began releasing music independently late in the first decade of the 2000s, releasing two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, in 2010 on Arbutus Records. She subsequently signed with 4AD and rose to prominence with the release of her third studio album, Visions, in 2012. Visions includes the singles “Genesis” and “Oblivion” and received the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year. Following this, her fourth studio album, Art Angels, was released in 2015 and received critical praise as several publications named it the best album of the year. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in 2020.

Boucher has a step-brother who raps under the name Jay Worthy; they collaborated on the single “Christmas Song”, released on the Rough Trade bonus disc of her Visions album. One of her brothers, Mac Boucher, was involved in the making of some of her music videos, such as “Violence”, “Go”, “Realiti”, “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream”, “Kill V. Maim”, “Venus Fly” and “We Appreciate Power”.

Boucher stated in 2012, she “blacked out the windows and did tons of amphetamine and stayed up for three weeks and didn’t eat anything”. In 2011, she and fellow Canadian artist d’Eon spent “a week playing shows and doing acid in Mexico City”.

In 2014, Boucher wrote a blog post expressing her aversion to hard drugs, distancing herself from her previous endorsement, saying she does not want “[hard drug use] to be part of [her] narrative”.

Since 2018, Boucher has been in a relationship with technology entrepreneur Elon Musk.

On January 8, 2020, Boucher announced she was pregnant with her and Musk’s first child together. Grimes gave birth to their son on May 4, 2020, with Musk announcing via Twitter that both Grimes and their baby were doing well. Boucher and Musk said they had named the child “X Æ A-12” (pronounced “Ex Ash A Twelve” or “Ex Ay Eye”), although it was reported that the name violated the naming law in California, where the child was born. On May 24, Boucher announced the name was changed to “X Æ A-Xii”. According to an image of the birth certificate released by TMZ, the letter “X” is the child’s first name, and his middle name is “AE A-XII”. He is Musk’s seventh child. Grimes claimed via Instagram that Go Won of the South Korean girl group Loona, with whom she collaborated in 2018, is her son’s godmother.

More Information about Grimes

• Name: Grimes
• Date Of Birth: March 17, 1988
• Place Of Birth: Vancouver, Canada
• Main Occupation: Singer