Dream Girl

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Toronto Life

July, 2007

How to become a certified pop diva without losing your indie boyfriend. The unstoppable ambition of Feist.

 

Leslie Feist is sitting quietly in a booth at the Rivoli. She has a soft spot for the restaurant, since she used to work here as a bartender, before she had to worry about major-label record deals and fanatically coordinated PR campaigns. Her hair is tied up in a schoolgirl ponytail, lips smudged with cherry gloss, nails dressed in chipping remnants of last week