Feist – WITNESS’ 20th Anniversary Focus for Change Benefit – Roseland Ballroom – New York City, NY, USA – Photo Credit: Marco Sagliocco / PR Photos
Birth Name: Leslie Feist
Place of Birth: Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date of Birth: February 13, 1976
Ethnicity: German [including Alsatian], English, Irish, possibly other
Feist is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Feist is the daughter of Lyn and Harold Elmer Feist. Feist’s father is American, and is mostly of German, English, and Irish descent. Feist’s mother is from Saskatchewan, Canada. Feist has a brother, Ben, and they were raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Calgary, Alberta. Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship.
Feist’s paternal grandfather was Elmer Frank Feist (the son of Frank Joseph Feist, Jr. and Mabel Charlotte Fulton).
Feist’s great-grandfather Frank was the son of Frank Joseph Feist, Sr., who was from Baden, Germany, and of Mary Agnes Hildenbrandt, whose own parents were German. Feist’s great-grandmother Mabel was the daughter of Martin John Fulton, whose father was from France, and of Sophie Borsch, whose own father was from either Germany or France.
Feist’s paternal grandmother was Ruth Frances Cronan (the daughter of George Leslie Cronan and Etta Mae Benjamin). George was the son of Daniel Webster Cronan, whose parents, Patrick Cronan and Ellen Kelley, were Irish, and of Vina/Vienna Agnes Weller.
Sources: http://www.haroldfeist.com
Birth record of Feist’s father – http://www.familysearch.org
Feist’s paternal grandfather, Elmer Frank Feist, on the 1920 U.S. Census – http://www.familysearch.org
Feist’s paternal grandmother, Ruth Frances Cronan, on the 1930 U.S. Census – http://www.familysearch.org