Edwin Farnham Butler III was born on July 14, 1973 in Exeter, New Hampshire to parents Edwin Farnham Butler II and Joan A. Butler (née Butler). His father taught at Phillips Exeter Academy while his mother had careers in real estate and education before she married his father. He has one sibling, Melissa Anne Butler (born 1970), who lives in California with her husband, musician John Stirratt, of the band Wilco; they have two children, son Spencer and daughter Sarah Grace.The Co-Founder of Arcade Fire: Edwin Farnham Butler III
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Born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, he was educated at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. On moving to Montreal he met Chassagne as a music student and the two soon started to play music together. The Co-Founder of Arcade Fire: Edwin Farnham Butler III
Bio
He is one of the co-founders of Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire, as is his wife, Régine Chassagne. The couple also records together as a duo called Deverill. He has participated in a number of other projects including film scoring for Richard Pryor’s biopic ‘Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?’ and Courtney Love’s ‘America Tonight’. As a solo artist he has recorded four albums.
Family
Born in Louisiana on March 27, 1979, he went to French school and grew up with a connection to France. He has a sister Rose and two brothers Joseph and Michael. He married Régine Chassagne, the other co-founder of Arcade Fire and they have three kids together
Relationship
Win Butler is a Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the co-founders of Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire, as is his wife Régine Chassagne. Win has been noted as an essential player in the band’s personal dynamics, with a musical sensibility and serious mind that separates him from many other musicians.
Physical info
Edwin Farnham Butler III was born in New Orleans on February 14, 1976. His father, an American pianist and jazz composer who studied at Harvard University, moved the family to Montreal when Win was very young. Win’s mother taught herself a slew of instruments and played in his father’s jazz band. The two had six children, including Win and his younger sister Sarah.
Career
Butler and Chassagne started Arcade Fire in 2003. He plays guitar, drums, and piano, but is most often found playing synthesizer. One notable thing about him is his voice and the roles he performs in the band as a singer and songwriter.
He spent much of his twenties touring with the band, participating in high-profile international performances such as the 2005 Live 8 concert in London, where they played for hundreds of thousands of people.
Awards
In 2005, Butler and Chassagne were both awarded a Medal of Honor by the Académie des Arts et Lettres du Québec. In 2012, they were inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. They also received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Juno Awards. They were made Officers of the Order of Canada in 2015.
the first moment that fears for the rest of life
Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve had a fear that someday I might fall into a big hole and die. A black place with no one around to see me or hear me. It’s why when I’m about to walk up the stairs, for example, my eyes go straight to the bottom first so I can check for any holes in the flooring before setting foot on it.
It goes without saying that this has affected me in many ways.
sweetest moment of life
Win Butler, known for his role as the co-founder and lead singer of Arcade Fire, is also a songwriter and musician. On October 17th, 2012, he was awarded the ‘Bessie Award for Musical Excellence’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Win shared his sweetest moment in life with the audience. I have my musical partner and I have my three kids and we are all just so much smarter because we get to play music together every day.
first girlfriend
Before he met Régine Chassagne, his future wife and Arcade Fire co-founder, Win was in a relationship with a woman he knew from Montréal named Kathleen Edwards. She is now an award winning country singer from Ontario. They are no longer in contact but she also starred on the reality show Canadian Idol and has been interviewed about their relationship in interviews and on Canadian radio.
first success in life
Butler has played the bass guitar since he was four years old. He grew up in Maine and graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in philosophy. His parents are both teachers, his father a science teacher and his mother an English teacher.
when bo was most amazed
I’ve always had the most amazement at the natural world, which is what I think you can hear in some songs like Supersymmetry and Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice). It seems to me that it gives meaning to life when you understand how complex it is.
The first experience that taught a lot
One of the first experiences that taught me a lot was when I got my license at sixteen. I had just gotten my learner’s permit and hadn’t driven for more than a few minutes, so naturally, the idea of a family road trip sounded like fun. It was about three hours away to our destination, and we drove up to Vermont on the Friday night before Labor Day weekend in 2008.
first master
Edwin Farnham Butler III is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded Montreal indie rock band Arcade Fire with his wife Régine Chassagne. Together they have three children: Ezra, Elisha and newborn Henry. Win began teaching himself to play the drums at age 13, in Hull, Quebec.
Early Life
He was born in Irvine, California, but spent his childhood summers in New Hampshire, where he attended Fryeburg Academy with his siblings. His father is American and his mother is Canadian. Butler majored in music at McGill University and co-founded the band Arcade Fire in 2003.
Personal Life
Edwin Farnham Butler III was born in New York, to an American father and a Canadian mother. They had split up before his birth, and the only contact he ever had with his father was in 2006. He studied music at Concordia University in Montreal, where he met Régine Chassagne.
Net Worth
Butler met Chassagne in 1996 in Montreal. She was a student at the Montreal Conservatory of Music while he was a teaching assistant.
Social Media Profile(s)
Edwin Farnham Butler has two main social media profiles. On Facebook, he uses his first name and the name Arcade Fire. His Instagram is edwinnnnyyybbiii.
Q.&A.
Edwin is best known as a co-founder and the guitarist of Montreal indie rock band Arcade Fire. The band was founded by musicians Régine Chassagne and Butler’s husband, Richard Reed Parry. On February 11, 2011, Arcade Fire won Album of the Year at the 54th Grammy Awards in recognition for their third album, The Suburbs. A year later they won a Brit Award for International Group on February 16, 2012.