James Shaw (sometimes credited as Jimmy Shaw) is a founder and lead guitarist of Canadian

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band

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. He is also a member of the band

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and an award-winning producer.

Life and career

Shaw was born in London, England and raised in Bellevue, Ontario, Canada. He spent three years earning a classical music education at the Juilliard Music School in New York. Upon returning to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he met Emily Haines, and the two began dating and making music immediately. In 1997, Haines was featured in Shaw's debut album "Life on the Clock", and the two formed the band

in 1998. Shaw's early efforts to make sure that former high school friends Haines and

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remained friends helped the evolution of the band Broken Social Scene. Shaw produced the debut album of the

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band

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(who toured with Metric in 2005). He is the owner of Giant Studios in Toronto, formerly with

Sebastien Grainger Sebastien Alexandre Grainger (born 11 April 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the alternative rock duo Death from Above and the singer and guitarist for his band Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains. H ...

, member of Death From Above 1979. In 2010, he was nominated along with bandmate Emily Haines for the

Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year The Juno Award for "Songwriter of the Year" has been awarded since 1971, as recognition each year for the best songwriter in Canada. It was also known as the Juno Award for "Composer of the Year" from 1975 to 1990. Formerly presented for a single ...

. In 2013 he won the

Juno Award for Producer of the Year The Juno Award for "Producer of the Year" has been awarded since 1975, as recognition each year for the best record producer in Canada. It was renamed the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year" award in 2003, after Jack Richardson who was a note ...

for the songs " Youth Without Youth" and "Breathing Underwater" from Metric's album '' Synthetica''. Shaw performed with Broken Social Scene on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert March 30, 2017.

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