Our Lady Peace Bio - Biography

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Our Lady Peace, often abbreviated OLP, is an award-winning Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida, Duncan Coutts, Jeremy Taggart and Steve Mazur. Throughout their career, the band has sold over five million albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards, and won ten MuchMusic Video Awards—the most MMVAs ever awarded to any artist or group.

The band has thus-far released six studio albums, one live album, and one compilation album, and are known famously for their many hit singles ranging from "Superman's Dead" to "Somewhere Out There". The band is currently working on their seventh studio release, which is nearing completion. No specific release date or album title have yet been confirmed.

OLP's first four studio albums, spanning from their grunge-styled Naveed to their 2001 concept album Spiritual Machines, are widely considered to contain their most unique and original music to date. Maida's distinct high-octave falsetto was also an important factor in the music's success, prominently used in songs such as their 1999 single, "Thief".

Many cite a distinct change toward a more generic, mainstream rock sound in their two most recent studio albums—Gravity and Healthy in Paranoid Times. Maida's falsetto was also lost during these albums. Maida has recently acknowledged this change, and says that former band producer Bob Rock pushed the band in that direction. Maida struggles with the change, and says he "might be able to get back to that [original style of music]" in future albums.

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