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I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.
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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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