Michael Olsen’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Canadian musician
Is Record producer 
Musician 
Composer 
From Canada 
Type Business 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 28 June 1974, Vancouver, Canada
Age: 46 years
Star sign Cancer
Genre:
Alternative rock

Michael Peter Olsen (born June 28, 1974) is a Grammy nominated Canadian multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, composer and arranger currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Olsen has collaborated live on tour and on records with bands and artists such as: Arcade Fire, Drake, K-OS, Jim Guthrie, Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers and The Hidden Cameras.

He is also well known as a producer and has worked with critically acclaimed local talent such as Ohbijou, and Spiral Beach,. Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence.

Olsen currently fronts the Toronto band Our Founders whose members include Spencer Cole of Weaves. Their album, The Nines was released in October 2013 under good reviews.

He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014–2015 in Toronto.

As a solo artist Michael Peter Olsen will be releasing a full-length record entitled “Yearning Flow” in the Spring of 2020 on the Canadian independent label Hand Drawn Dracula

Selected performance discography

Drake

  • Views (2016)

Our Founders

  • The Nines (2013)

The Great Lake Swimmers

  • Ongiara (2007)
  • Lost Channels (2009)

Arcade Fire

  • Funeral (2004)
  • Cold Wind (2005)
  • Dark Was The Night (2009)

Hidden Cameras

  • The Hidden Cameras Play The CBC sessions 10″ EP (2002)
  • The Smell of Our Own (2003)
  • A Miracle (2003) Single CD
  • Mississauga Goddam (2004)
  • Awoo (2006)
  • Origin:Orphan (2009)

K-os

  • Joyful Rebellion (2004)

Jim Guthrie

  • Now, More Than Ever (2003)
  • Morning Noon Night (2003)

Selected production discography

Ohbijou

  • Swift Feet for troubling Times (2006) Producer/Engineer

Spiral Beach

  • Ball (Sparks/EMI, 2007) Co-Producer/Engineer
  • The Bonus Disc (Sparks/EMI, 2008) Producer/Engineer
  • The Only Really Thing (Sparks/EMI, 2009) Producer/Engineer

The Organ

  • The Organ (Mint Records/604, 2008) Mix Engineer
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