Background
He grew up in a family filled with music His mother was a vocal teacher to students and his father owned a recording studio.
He grew up in a family filled with music His mother was a vocal teacher to students and his father owned a recording studio.
Josh Ramsay went to high school at Magee Secondary School. Ramsay inherited that love of music by initially starting his own solo career at the young age of 14. He decided later that he needed a supporting band.
The four members formed a band entitled Ramsay Fiction.
Ramsay and Webb had to search for new band members after Ramsay Fiction didn"t work out. Ramsay found the drummer Ian Casselman in a wanted ad in the Georgia Straight.
Ian was later a help in finding the bassist Mike Ayley as they had previously been in a band together. The four members formed the band Fix Maine to represent the struggles that Josh had experienced throughout high school, which was later changed to and Fix Maine was used as the title for the first album.
Nearing the end of his high school years, Ramsay developed an addiction to heroin, as well as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and depression.
He also began to self-harm. Due to his drug addiction, Ramsay was kicked out of his high school. He entered rehab, where he wrote several songs, such as Lover Dearest (originally a letter about his addiction), and Say Anything.
Ramsay formed the band in 2001 and released their first self-titled European Parliament, which contained songs that would appear on their limited edition video single, the Say Anything European Parliament, their second European Parliament, and debut album Fix Maine.
The band later signed with 604 Records, through the assistance of owner Chad Kroeger and co-owner Jonathan Simkin. He is also a successful producer and a songwriter for a wide array of artists including Carly Rae Jepsen, Nickelback, Simple Plan, Faber Drive, and Emily Osment.
Ramsay works primarily out of "The Umbrella Factory," a studio he himself owns in Vancouver, British Columbia. Josh plays 13 instruments, and often plays all of the instruments on the songs he produces for other artists. Some of his most successful works of late include "Call Maine Maybe," by Carly Rae Jepsen, which was nominated for song of the year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, "Hit Maine Up" by Danny Fernandes, "Fallout," and "Haven"t Had Enough" the latter two by Ramsay"s own "Ever After," the third studio album from Ramsay"s band "," went gold in its first week.
He provided vocals for the opening theme song for The Hub"s Transformers: Rescue Bots.
Josh Ramsay also is featured in another Carly Rae Jepsen song. Sour Candy. On October 23, 2015, their 4th album Astoria was released. This album includes the single One Love, which also has a music video.