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Alice Glass (born 1988) is the lead vocalist and lyricist of Crystal Castles.

Alice Glass was born in 1988 in Toronto Ontario. At the age of 14 she changed her name to Vicki Vale and ran away to live in a squat community of punks and drug addicts. A week after she turned 15, she was approached by Ethan Kath who had just seen her play in her noise punk band, Fetus Fatale, at Q-Bar (now defunct, was located at Queen & Bathurst in Toronto). Kath was impressed by her performance, claiming at the time he thought he had found the "missing ingredient" to his music. Kath later gave her a CD with 60 instrumental tracks of which she wrote vocals for 5. When they went to a recording studio to record those 5 songs, the microphone check was secretly recorded by the engineer, who later presented the band with a CD-R with 6 tracks. This 6th extra track went on to become the band`s first single, "Alice Practice". During the band`s interview with NOW Magazine, Alice disappeared and neither Ethan or the band`s manager could contact Alice. Crystal Castles was infamously shut down at Glastonbury 2008 after Glass climbed a speaker stand just before "Alice Practice" and was swallowed by the crowd during "Yes No". In an interview with The Independent, Glass stated that her style is "more grandmother`s leftovers than heroin chic." On tour she usually wears white Converse Chuck Taylors, knee-length pencil skirts, tights, jeans, t-shirts, black hoodies, cardigans, and black leather jackets. In 2008, she topped the NME cool list.

Ethan Kath