Caribou

Daniel Victor Snaith, better known as Caribou or Manitoba is a Canadian electronic music artist born in 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is a multi-instrumentalist playing synthesizers, piano, drum kit, bass and guitar. At the beginning of his career, he used the name Manitoba but has to change it because of a threat of a lawsuit by Richard “Handsome Dick” Manitoba. Since then, he has been known as Caribou. He has his own backing band during the live performances. It composes of Ryan Smith, Brad Weber (of Winter Equinox), and Andy Lloyd (of Henri Fabergé and the Adorables). 2007 saw his full-length album Andorra. It received 2008 Polaris Music Prize. The album spawned singles Melody Day, She’s the One and Eli. His previous album is The Milk of Humans Kindness. You can download both albums by Caribou in mp3 from our site.