Our Lady Peace consists of Duncan Coutts (bass), Jeremy Taggart (drums), Raine Maida (vocals), Steve Mazur (guitar).
Our Lady Peace, colloquially OLP, is a Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida ( vocals), Duncan Coutts ( bass), Jeremy Taggart ( drums), and Steve Mazur ( guitar).
Ex-members of the band include Mike Turner (founding member and guitarist), Jamie Edwards ("Stunt Musician"), Mike Eisenstein ("Stunt Musician"), Chris Eacrett (bassist), and Jim Newell (drummer).
Currently, the band is on tour in North America with a fifth stage member, Joel Shearer (of the band Pedestrian).
The band's song "Whatever" is used as the entrance of professional wrestler Chris Benoit.
Our Lady Peace was founded in 1992 when Mike Turner placed a "musicians wanted" ad in a Toronto newspaper. Responding first was Michael (Raine) Maida, a criminology student at the University of Toronto. Later, 17-year-old Jeremy Taggart and Chris Eacrett joined the band. Eacrett left in 1995, replaced by Duncan Coutts. Turner left in 2001, replaced by Steve Mazur. Jamie Edwards, a keyboardist, would join in 1996 and leave in 2002, shortly after Turner left.
Our Lady Peace first won recognition with their debut album Naveed, released in Canada in 1994 and the United States in 1995. "Naveed" became a hit in Canada and "Starseed" a hit in Canada and the United States. ("Starseed" would later appear on the Armageddon film soundtrack.) Their second album, Clumsy, released in 1997 and including the tracks "Clumsy," an instant hit around the suburban landscape, "4 AM," a more morose song about not appreciating the good things in life including family, "Superman's Dead," a song about being alone in a world without relying on a hero, "Carnival" and "Automatic Flowers", established OLP as a leading band in 1990s rock music in Canada, and a notable group internationally. Their music explored often deep intellectual and emotional themes with powerful orchestration and the unique singing voice of lead vocalist Maida, called "strange" and "paranoid".
