Edwin Farnham Butler IV is the son of the famous American-Canadian singer and musician Win Butler and his wife Regine Chassagne, who are also co-founders of the Montreal-based indie music group Arcade Fire.
Butler was born on April 21, 2013, in Montreal, Quebec.
His mother is Afro-Dominican, Afro-Haitian, Corsican, Italian, and French ancestry, while his father is of Danish, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, English, German, Northern Irish (Scotch-Irish), Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.
But his father Win Butler was born in Truckee, California, and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, with a Mormon upbringing.
He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before his brother Will was born.
Win Butler moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2000 to attend McGill University, where he met his future wife, Régine Chassagne, whom he married in 2003.
Butler graduated from McGill in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies.
Butler is married to fellow Arcade Fire member Régine Chassagne, who gave birth to the couple’s only child, a son, Edwin Farnham Butler IV.
Butler was naturalized as a Canadian citizen on July 9, 2019, in a ceremony held in Montreal and hosted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada minister Ahmed Hussen.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7u7PRZ6WerF%2Bau3DDyKSgaJ2UrLavecWaqaegkaJ6o8HTpZyrZZmreri0zmagrGWnnrturtSto56qo2LAsLqO