Background
Ethnicity:
Her parents were born in America. Paul Haines,her father, eventually settled in Canada, after spending time in Europe, India, New York City, as well as a long stint as a French Teacher at Fenelon Falls Secondary School, in Ontario, Canada.
Emily Haines was born on 25 January in 1974 in New Delhi, India and raised since the age of 3 in Peterborough, Ontario. The daughter of poet Paul Haines grew up as a dual citizen of Canada and India. Her father would often make cassettes of rare and eclectic music for his daughter to listen to and her early influences included Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt. By her teens, she followed her parents' footsteps by attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts.