![]() DeMarco worked on "psychedelic" video projects during this time. Living in the Killarney neighbourhood, he released a self-produced album, Heat Wave, as a part of the indie rock project Makeout Videotape in 2009. 2009–2012: Early projects and first solo album ![]() Īfter graduating from Strathcona High School in Edmonton in 2008, DeMarco became a backing musician. He started smoking cigarettes as a teenager, which has now become a big part of his image. During high school he was in several bands, including indie rock band The Meat Cleavers, alternative R&B group The Sound of Love and post-punk band Outdoor Miners (along with current keyboardist, Alec Meen), which was named after a song by English rock band Wire. ![]() Around this time he started playing guitar, with lessons from his grandmother. ĭeMarco attended McKernan School for junior high. ![]() His mother, Agnes DeMarco, later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, after his father left when Mac was 4 and refused to pay child support. His great-grandfather is Vernor Smith, Alberta's former Minister of Railways and Telephones, for whom DeMarco was named, and his grandfather (also named Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith) was a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. Life and career 1990–2008: Early life and education ĭeMarco was born in Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. 1.6 2021–present: Line-up changes and future.1.2 2009–2012: Early projects and first solo album.
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