Adam Waito is an indie rock musician based in Montreal. He is the front-man and principal songwriter for Adam and the Amethysts, and a member of Miracle Fortress. Waito was born in Manitouwadge,Ontario and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario but moved to Montreal in the early 2000s. He co-founded Telefauna in 2004, an indie-pop band whose influences included Devo, Justin Timberlake and Os Mutantes .

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  • Adam Waito is an indie rock musician based in Montreal. He is the front-man and principal songwriter for Adam and the Amethysts, and a member of Miracle Fortress. Waito was born in Manitouwadge,Ontario and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario but moved to Montreal in the early 2000s. He co-founded Telefauna in 2004, an indie-pop band whose influences included Devo, Justin Timberlake and Os Mutantes . Telefauna played the Pop Montreal festival three times, and opened for artists including Cocorosie, Annie and Holy Fuck. After releasing Their 1st EP in 2005 and the Under the Underground Water/Bamboo Shoot single in 2007, Telefauna went on hiatus. Adam Waito's solo project, Adam and the Amethysts was launched with the release of Amethyst Amulet in 2008. The album is an ode to Waito's home town, referencing 60s pop, Neil Young as well as contemporary indie rock. First released by Pome Records, the album was championed by the National Post, Toronto Star and NOW Magazine. Adam and the Amethysts were also launched as a live band, touring with Miracle Fortress and The Luyas and featuring keyboardist Katherine Peacock (of Telefauna, Mussaver and the Coal Choir), drummer Nathan Ward and Jessie Stein. In 2008, the band played the Pop Montreal festival and Sackville, New Brunswick's Sappy Fest. Adam and the Amethysts also marked Waito's transition from keyboards to electric guitar. Waito joined Miracle Fortress after the release of their first CD, Five Roses. Besides playing in several of Montreal's most important emerging bands, Adam Waito is also an amateur scholar of vintage Canadian psych-rock, and has written about the topic for Said the Gramophone. He has also spoken on a panel on songwriters at Pop Montreal's Symposium along with seminal Canadian psych-folk songwriter and collaborator with Neil Young, Elyse Weinberg.
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  • April 2009
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  • Adam Waito is an indie rock musician based in Montreal. He is the front-man and principal songwriter for Adam and the Amethysts, and a member of Miracle Fortress. Waito was born in Manitouwadge,Ontario and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario but moved to Montreal in the early 2000s. He co-founded Telefauna in 2004, an indie-pop band whose influences included Devo, Justin Timberlake and Os Mutantes .
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