The Beaches Artistfacts

2009-
Jordan MillerVocals, bass2009-
Kylie MillerGuitar2009-
Eliza Enman-McDanielDrums2009-
Megan FitchettGuitar2009-2013
Leandra EarlGuitar, keyboards2013-
Before they were The Beaches, three of the four members - Jordan Miller, Kylie Miller, and Eliza Enman-McDaniel - were in a tween punk-pop band called Done With Dolls, formed around 2008 in the Toronto Beaches neighbourhood. The group landed a deal with Disney and worked with Canadian rock royalty Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace and singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk to write the theme song for the Family Channel sitcom Really Me in 2011. By the time they reached high school, the trio wanted a more grown-up sound and image, so they parted with the original fourth member, recruited keyboardist and guitarist Leandra Earl, and reinvented themselves as The Beaches.
The band takes their name from the east-end Toronto neighborhood where the Miller sisters and Eliza Enman-McDaniel grew up - it's called the Beaches. "We named our band after the neighborhood we're from - even though the neighborhood doesn't have a lot to say about the music," Kylie Miller told Sharp magazine. "We all met there and it's kind of funny because when you think about the Beaches it's kind of this bougie, very family-orientated neighborhood, and that's not really what our band is at all. But we kind of took that name and flipped it on itself and made a badass rock band."

Notably, when the band were looking for a name, no one had ever simply called their group "The Beaches," just variants like Lonely Beaches, Beach House and Dead Beaches.
The Beaches' debut album, Late Show (2017), was produced by Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Canadian art-rock icons Metric. The pairing came about after Haines publicly championed the band.
The title track of their 2017 debut album, Late Show, is also the oldest song in the band's catalog, written before Leandra Earl had even joined the group. "When we transitioned from our old band to our new band, we wrote 'Late Show' and it really was kind of a mission statement for the music that we wanted to make," Kyle Miller told Sharp magazine.
Late Show earned The Beaches the 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year, joining a list of previous winners that includes Rush, Nickelback, Drake, and Avril Lavigne. The album's single "T-Shirt" topped the Billboard Canada Rock chart, spending nine weeks at #1.
The band's breakthrough moment outside Canada came in May 2023 when a TikTok clip tied to their single "Blame Brett" racked up 3.2 million views, catapulting the song onto the US Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. It peaked at #21, their first-ever appearance on a US Billboard chart.

The song name-checks Brett Emmons, frontman of Canadian rock band The Glorious Sons, who dated Jordan Miller after the two bands toured together. The track was so catchy that Blink-182's Mark Hoppus was filmed singing and dancing along to it on TikTok, and the Jonas Brothers - also fans - invited The Beaches onstage to perform it at one of their concerts in November 2023.
At the Juno Awards of 2024, held in Halifax and hosted by Nelly Furtado, The Beaches won both Rock Album of the Year for Blame My Ex and the prestigious Group of the Year award. The Group of the Year win made them only the second all-female band in Juno history to take that prize, the first being Tegan and Sara, who won it a decade earlier in 2014. It was the second time The Beaches had won at the Junos, following their 2018 Breakthrough Group of the Year award.
Despite their rock-star swagger, the band members have never hidden their inner geeks. Frontwoman Jordan Miller was once an enthusiastic participant in live-action role-playing games, happily spending weekends in worlds populated by elves, knights, and other fantasy staples. Drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel was a Pokémon devotee, immersing herself in Nintendo's ever-expanding universe of collectible creatures.

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