| Ellen Reid | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Ellen Lorraine Reid |
| Birth Date: | 1966 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genre: | Rock music |
| Occupation: | Musician |
| Instrument: | Vocals, keyboards, accordion |
| Years Active: | 1989–present |
| Label: | Arista, ViK., Cha-Ching, Deep Fried |
| Associated Acts: | Crash Test Dummies |
Ellen Lorraine Reid (born 14 July 1966)[1] is a Canadian musician. She provides backing vocals, piano, keyboards and accordion for the Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies.[2] [3]
Reid was born and grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba.[4] [5] She studied piano as a child,[6] and later attended the University of Winnipeg.[7]
While studying in Winnipeg in the late 1980s, Reid joined a band "Brad Roberts and the St.James Rhythm Pigs" who were playing in local taverns. She mainly played piano and sang backup vocals behind lead singer Brad Roberts. The group, renamed "Crash Test Dummies", performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1989, and released an album, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, in 1991.[8]
Reid recorded with the Crash Test Dummies on all of their albums;[9] on the band's fourth album, she sang lead vocals on "Just Chillin'", "Get You in the Morning" and "A Little Something". She also shared lead vocals with Roberts on the single B-sides, "Filter Queen" and "Party's Over". She also sang lead during some concerts on "Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way)" and on the hit, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", a cover of the XTC song.[1]
In 2001, Reid released a solo album, Cinderellen.[1] [10] [11] and toured in support of the album in early 2002.[12]
In 2002 Reid took part in the recording of the Crash Test Dummies' Christmas album, entitled Jingle All the Way. In 2004 she was also involved in the recording of the Dummies' Songs of the Unforgiven album.
Reid, Brad Roberts and Stuart Cameron continued to record together, and toured throughout 2010/2011 in support of The Crash Test Dummies album Oooh La La![13] The band came together again for tours in 2017 and 2018.[14]
See main article: Crash Test Dummies discography.