Singer and songwriter
Raine Maida met guitarist Mike Turner at the University of Toronto in 1992 and the two formed the post-grunge band
Our Lady Peace, recruiting bassist
Chris Eacrett and jazz drummer
Jeremy Taggart. The band signed to Relativity and issued
Naveed, which included the modern rock hit "Starseed," in 1995. Bassist
Duncan Coutts replaced
Eacrett for 1997's
Clumsy, followed two years later by
Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.
Spiritual Machines appeared in 2001 and, shortly thereafter, guitarist Mike Turner left the band and was replaced by Steve Mazur. The stripped-down
Gravity appeared in June 2002. The band toured throughout Canada and the U.S. in support of the album and released Live from Calgary and Edmonton a year later in both CD and DVD formats.
Healthy in Paranoid Times, the band's seventh album, was released in late August 2005. A greatest-hits package,
A Decade, followed in 2006. Influenced and inspired by the beat poets and songwriters like
Patti Smith and
Leonard Cohen who straddled the literary and musical worlds,
Maida released an EP,
Love Hope Hero, as a solo artist in 2006, following it with an acoustic, mostly spoken word full-length project,
The Hunter's Lullaby, in 2007. ~ Steve Leggett