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Peaches

ピーチズ　/　ぴーちず

Singer from Canada

November 11, 1966 (age 59)　・　Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ontario
singer
record producer
guitarist

My Take

Peaches is one of my favorite examples of an artist who built a universe entirely on her own terms. Merrill Nisker left Toronto, landed in Berlin, and turned raw electroclash provocation into a decades-long project about bodies, gender, and who gets to be loud. What I find compelling is that the shock value was never the whole act — she writes, produces, and performs everything herself, and that total control is what separates an icon from a gimmick. Variety calling her a feminist and queer icon reads less like praise than plain description. Nearly thirty years in, she still sounds more fearless than artists half her age.

Overview

Merrill Nisker (born 11 November 1966), also known by the stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electroclash musician and producer. Peaches has been described as a "feminist and queer icon" by Variety.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Peaches
Name (Japanese): ピーチズ
Reading: ぴーちず
Born: November 11, 1966 (age 59)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Horse
Origin: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / record producer / guitarist / songwriter / disc jockey

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2016 Preis für Popkultur
2020 Berliner Bär

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.peachesrocks.com/
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lovelypeachesmusic100/
Xhttps://x.com/peachesnisker
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches%20(musician)

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