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"Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1981) is a violinist and singer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the principal member of the band Final Fantasy, which is essentially a solo project, although Leon Taheny is also credited as drummer and engineer. As Final Fantasy, Pallett has been noted for his live performances, wherein he plays the violin into a sampler controlled by foot pedals, which then loops back one or more of the previously played musical phrases as he plays additional parts simultaneously. He has also performed with more traditional string quartets as backing musicians.

He believes his work is influenced by his sexuality, saying, 'As far as whether the music I make is gay or queer, yeah, it comes from the fact that I'm gay, but that doesn't mean I'm making music about it,' in a recent interview. On 12 February 2005, his debut album, Has a Good Home, was released by the recording club Blocks (sometimes referred to as 'BlocksBlocksBlocks'), a cooperative, Toronto-based record label of which he is a founding member. A second album, He Poos Clouds, was released in June of 2006. This album went on to win the 2006 Polaris Prize for best Canadian album.

His previous projects included a 3-piece Toronto-based band, Les Mouches, now defunct. He was once the violinist of another Toronto band called Picastro. Owen has also recorded and toured with Jim Guthrie, The Hidden Cameras, The Vinyl Cafe, and The Arcade Fire (he co-wrote the strings arrangement for their album Funeral). One of his songs, 'This Is the Dream of Win & Regine', was inspired by the principal members of the latter group, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne and is a play on a Dntel song called, '(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan.' The name 'Final Fantasy' is a tribute to the well-known video game series, of which Owen is a fan."

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