Nicholas Krgovich

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Nicholas Krgovich (born 1982), also sometimes credited as Nick Krgovich, is a Canadian musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] He is most noted for the 2020 album Philadelphia, [2] a collaboration with Joseph Shabason and Chris Harris which was a longlisted nominee for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize. [3]

Krgovich was active in the early 2000s as a member of the indie pop bands P:ano, Gigi and No Kids, [1] and as a collaborator with Veda Hille, Rose Melberg and Mount Eerie. He released his solo debut album, Who Cares? In 2013, [4] and followed up with further solo albums in the 2010s and 2020s. His 2018 album "Ouch" was about his breakup with his first boyfriend, [5] and marked the first time he actively wrote and sang about gay themes in his music. [6]

In 2021, he released This Spring, an album of Hille covers, [7] and he, Shabason and Harris released the instrumental album Florence as a companion piece to Philadelphia. [8]

In 2022, Krgovich and Shabason announced another collaborative album, At Scaramouche. [9]

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