Dan Bejar

Dan Bejar
Bejar in 2022
Background information
Born	(1972-10-04) October 4, 1972 (age 52) Vancouver, Canada
Genres	Chamber pop, indie pop, folk, indie rock
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano, tambourine
Years active	Mid-1990s–present
Labels	Tinker, Granted Passage Cassettes, Merge, Endearing, Jagjaguwar, Locust Records, Rough Trade, Misra

Daniel Bejar (/ˈbeɪhɑːr/; born October 4, 1972^[1]) is a Canadian singer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the frontman of Destroyer, and was a member of indie rock band the New Pornographers.

In 2006, he joined with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade as part of indie supergroup Swan Lake.^[2] He has also collaborated with his wife Sydney Hermant^[3] as the duo Hello, Blue Roses, whose debut album was released in 2008.

Bejar was born in 1972 to a Spanish father and an American mother at Vancouver General Hospital.^[4] Bejar's father was a physicist who grew up in Spain during the Francoist dictatorship and his mother was a teacher who taught the Spanish language.^[4][5] His father died when he was 13 years old.^[4] Growing up, Bejar moved frequently and in adulthood has resided in Southern California,^[4] Canada and Spain.^[5][6] Bejar attended University of British Columbia for three years: "To my credit, I eventually dropped out; to my discredit, I waited three years to do it. I was taking mostly English and Philosophy classes, fooling myself into thinking I might be an academic."^[5]

Bejar has one daughter^[5] and lives in the Strathcona neighbourhood of Vancouver.^[4]

In the late 1990s, Bejar had an acting role in his future New Pornographers bandmate Blaine Thurier's microbudget film Low Self-Esteem Girl.^[7]

Bejar has occasionally been mistaken for American visual artist Daniel Bejar. In March 2010, an article in The New Yorker detailed the visual artist Bejar's project "The Googlegänger", which detailed his efforts to impersonate the singer of the same name, and the past confusion by the media between the two.^[8]

• Destroyer at Merge Records
• Destroyer at Misra Records
• The Ratio – Destroyer Special Issue
• *sixeyes Interview – Destroyer's Dan Bejar Interview
• Dan Bejar's 'Other' Band NPR segment aired March 18, 2006