Melissa Auf der Maur
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1,702 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Mar
Melissa Auf der Maur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, I have the photo of my birthday party in an African tribe of children and me, which is, I think, where I got injected with the travel nomad came from my mother.
And my father, public mania, you know, he gave me that ability to walk into the spotlight with you.
Yeah.
Yeah, probably.
It was summer of 91.
My father didn't love the idea.
My mother was determined to go to an experimental art school where they did not have to learn English history or math until later.
And the foundation was...
fine arts core education.
And the trick, it was the 70s.
It was like the LaGuardia, the famed school of New York.
And it was a public school, and the idea was if you get kids to do art and performance, they will like education, which was true.
Because when I ended up in university, which is what I left to join rock bands, I didn't want to leave because I had been loving school my whole life.
So it was an amazing art school, and I went straight into University of the Fine Arts Department at Concordia, which was the... And the hope was to be a photographer or just an artiste?
Art, for me, was always multimedia.
Photography...
in school, bass at home in my room.
So I always envisioned I'd be able to marry the two together.
And I was like, oh, I could maybe be like a rock photographer as a musician, but it was to be a fine arts photographer, like a conceptual artist with photography as my core.
Yes.
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