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Artist
Veda Hille
12+ albums
singer-songwriterfemale vocalistsCanadianpianocanada
about
Veda Hille (born in Vancouver on 11 August 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboardist and tenor guitar player. As well as solo albums, she has released an album as Veda Hille & Christof Migone. Hille began playing piano when she was 6 at her own insistence. Her family moved around a lot, from the city to the country and back again. She first played classical music, then came pop music, and a few years of jazz. She attended art school studying sculpture, film, and performance art. She began writing music in 1990. Hille put out an indie cassette, 'Songs About People and Buildings', in 1992. People liked it and she started playing around town. She slowly started the business of touring Canada, and also began a long relationship with the Canadian modern dance scene. In 1994 she released her first CD, and has released an album roughly every 18 months since then. By the time she started working with her current band (assembled in 1997) she was regularly touring Canada, the US, and Germany. Hille plays piano and tenor guitar, dabbles in banjo, accordion, and protocols, and has a new love affair going on with a nord electro keyboard and a handful of casios. She writes about the natural world, the trickiness of love, the constant threat of tragedy, as well as very Vancouver subjects such as the late painter Emily Carr ('Here Is A Picture') and the missing women of the Downtown Eastside ('Return of the Kildeer's 'Liza Jane'). Veda has been a member of two bands: Duplex! (r
