Born in Oxford, David Usher is a Canadian who has lived in England, Canada, Thailand, and Malaysia, the East Village in New York and now Montreal. He has a degree in Political Science from Simon Fraser University.
With his band and as a solo artist, David has sold over 1.3 million albums. He has won 5 Junos, including 2002 Pop Album of the Year. Also in Canada, he has had 10 different singles hold the #1 spot on radio, and 10 singles in the top ten. David has had “top ten” and “top twenty” radio singles in 20 other countries around the world. His new album Wake Up and Say Goodbye is due out September 23rd, 2008.

When David isn’t working on music he is reading and writing about creativity and social media. Through his company CloudiD Media, David is the social media consultant for EMI Music Publishing as well as other art organizations. He is a regular speaker at conferences (MESH, the Canadian Marketing Association, NXNE, InfoPresse, Podcamp) talking about web revisualization, engagement, community building, the new value curve and the transition from the traditional media push model to the pull model of the modern web. David is also a partner in a web startup developing ‘social networking music software’, launching this fall.

David has traveled to Burma for WarChild to film a documentary on children affected by war. He has performed for Fashion Cares and is presently part of the campaign to Make Poverty History. David has also recently finished a cover version of John Lennon’s “Watching the Wheels” for Amnesty International and was the 2007 spokesperson for the Bell Walk for the Kids Help Phone.