Moxy Früvous

Moxy Früvous is a folk-pop/geek-rock/socially conscience-politically satirical band from the Toronto, Ontario area. Canada and the human experience are a common theme in Fruvous songs. The band formed in 1990 when

Moxy Früvous is a folk-pop/geek-rock/socially conscience-politically satirical band from the Toronto, Ontario area. Canada and the human experience are a common theme in Fruvous songs. The band formed in 1990 when Jian Ghomeshi and Murray Foster, classmates at Thornlea Secondary School, joined forces with Mike Ford and David Matheson and formed a band to busk in Toronto. As a combo of street buskers, they drew unusually large crowds, and, soon there after, the attention of CBC Radio One, which commissioned them to write songs about political and local issues for the radio show Later the Same Day.

They cut a six-song demo tape in 1992, and their first major-label album was released the next year. Its single, "King Of Spain," was only the second independent #1 hit in Canadian history. (Fellow Torontonians Barenaked Ladies were first by a few months, with 1993's "Be My Yoko Ono.") Shortly after, they embarked on a grueling touring schedule that continued, practically without stopping except to record new material, until the summer of 2001.