Kevin Barnes
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About
Singer-songwriter best known as the frontman for the experimental pop band Of Montreal. His band has released a number of critically-acclaimed albums like 2007's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Before Fame
He founded Of Montreal in 1996, naming the band after an ill-fated romance someone from Montreal.
Trivia
In 2007 he began performing on-stage as his alter ego, Georgie Fruit.
Family Life
His brother David is an artist who has designed album art for Of Montreal. During his marriage to Nina Aimee Grøttland he welcomed a daughter named Alabee. He and Nina divorced in 2013.
Associated With
He and Neutral Milk Hotel singer Jeff Mangum are both members of the musical collective Elephant 6.