Pony
country americana alt country Queer artist
"I got asked a question awhile back; if there was a biography being made about me, what would I want it to be called? I said “Big Sky” because I think that song and maybe “Dead of Night” probably sum up who Orville is and the big themes within Pony. I think “Big Sky” speaks a lot about regret and the inability to sit still, not really understanding why we react to things the way we do. It even speaks to the absence of feeling something we think we should be feeling. Read more on Last.fm.

Orville Peck is a country musician based in Canada. He wears a fringed mask and has never shown his face publicly. He released his debut album Pony in 2019,followed by the EP Show Pony the next year. His second studio album Bronco was released on April 8, 2022. Peck was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and lived there most of his life. As a child, Peck did not receive any formal music training, he taught himself music by playing on an acoustic guitar and an old Casio keyboard. He is the son of a sound engineer, and he did voice-over work for cartoons and other media as a child. Growing up, he trained in ballet for 12 years, and performed in musical theatre. By the time he was in his early 20s, Peck had been on national tours of musicals. In his mid-20s, he moved to London to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and later starred in a play on the West End. "Orville Peck" is a pseudonym; he has been described as "presumably older than 20 and younger than 40". Regarding his reasons for wearing a mask to perform, Peck has stated that "the only reason I don't talk about it in depth is not because I want to dodge any questions, but because I want people to have their own take on it. I don't want to lay it out and pin it down. I just don't think that's important." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.