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Merrill Beth Nisker (born 11 November 1968), better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms, and for their use of sexually explicit lyrics. Born in Ontario to a Jewish family, Peaches began her musical career in the 1990s as part of a folk trio, Mermaid Cafe. In 1995, she established a rock band, The Shit. That year she also released her first solo album, ''Fancypants Hoodlum''. Moving to Berlin, Germany, it was here that she was signed to the Kitty-Yo label and released her second album, ''The Teaches of Peaches'' (2000). Touring as the opening act for bands like Marilyn Manson and Queens of the Stone Age, she subsequently released her third album, ''Fatherfucker'' (2003). Her songs have been featured in movies such as ''Mean Girls'', ''Waiting...'', ''Jackass Number Two'', ''My Little Eye'', ''Drive Angry'', and ''Lost in Translation''. Her music has also been featured on television shows such as ''Lost Girl'', ''The L Word'', ''Ugly Betty'', ''South Park'', ''30 Rock'', ''True Blood'' and has been used for the promotion of ''Dirt''. Peaches performed guest vocals on Pink's album ''Try This'', on the song "Oh My God", on the Chicks on Speed album ''99 Cents'', on the song "We Don't Play Guitars", on Christina Aguilera's 2010 album ''Bionic'', on the song "My Girls" (which was produced and co-written with Le Tigre), and recently on Major Lazer's 2013 album ''Free the Universe'' on the song "Scare Me" featuring Timberlee. == Early life == Born Merrill Beth Nisker in 1968〔McNair, James (2006-07-21). "(Peaches: A decidedly fruity lady: Peaches dresses like a porn superhero and has a lot to say about gender politics. James Mcnair meets the singer in Illinois )", ''The Independent''. Retrieved 2013-10-26.〕 in Toronto, Ontario, she attended a private Jewish school where her classes were taught half in English and half in Hebrew. Nisker was a class clown, who "wasn't particularly smart. I was interested in creative performance stuff, but that turned out to be difficult for me because it was all so structured," she told Kitty Empire of ''The Observer''.〔 〕 Her family was culturally Jewish, though they were not religious.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peaches Christ Superstar - 3SAT "FOYER" feature )〕 Her grandparents immigrated to Canada from Poland; her paternal grandparents were from Galicia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peaches First Time in Poland (of Peaches, 2001 ) )〕 In an interview in ''URB'' magazine, alongside Princess Superstar, she recounted how growing up she experienced antisemitism from local schoolchildren; on her walks home from school, students from a nearby Catholic school would throw stones at her and call her a "dirty Jew".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urb Feature 2003 (with Peaches) )〕 Before she became Peaches, Nisker was a music and drama teacher at Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Associated music teacher pioneers electroclash )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peaches (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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