Caroline Polachek was once married to her ex-husband Ian Drennan in 2015. Caroline Polachek and Ian Drennan both are musical artists.
Caroline is a famous musical artist and pop singer who first gained fame for co-founding, singing in, and fronting the popular indie pop band Chairlift. The band was active from 2005 to 2017 and is primarily remembered for its sleeper hit single, Bruises.
However, she earned larger fame and prominence after the dissolution of Chairlift as a solo artist. Two years after Chairlift’s dissolution, she released her successful debut solo studio album, Pang.
Pang featured the hit single ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings,’ which gained popularity by going viral on TikTok. Since then, she has collaborated with various famous artists, most prominently Charli CXX, and written for singers and rappers like Beyonce and Travis Scott.
Who Is Ian Drennan? Ex-husband Of Caroline Polachek
Ian Drennan is best known for being the ex-husband of Caroline Polachek.
Ian Drennan and Caroline Polachek were married from 2015 to 2017. He is a musician and structural engineer based in New York City.
He first gained prominence in the late 2000s and early 2010s for his involvement in the up-and-coming Indie Pop band, Big Troubles.
He founded the band alongside Alex Craig, with whom he shared guitar and vocal duties, Sam Franklin on drums, and Luka Usmani on bass. They released two albums, Worry in 2010 and Romantic Comedy in 2011.
They also released three EPs, a self-titled one and one called Drastic and Difficult in 2010 and a live Daytrotter Session in 2011.
Despite warm critical reception for their first two albums, they never caught on commercially. Their last release was a single called “Comb My Hair” alongside another band called Lilys’ single “Well Traveled Is Protest.”
Since then, he gained a surge of popularity after marrying Caroline Polachek, but more so due to their wedding being extensively photographed by Vogue Magazine. But their divorce was the last time the media mentioned him.
In recent years, he has stepped away from the spotlight and focused on the solo music he’s been recording since 2012. He makes ambient sound tapes in the Musique concrete style.
He has released five very underground albums, with his most recent one, 2021’s Swine, not even being available on streaming platforms.
Ian Drennan Relationship And Married Life
Vogue covers Caroline Polachek and Ian Drennan’s wedding.
Acclaimed Vogue photographer Noah Rabinowitz took the pictures in a Chinese architecture-inspired garden with wandering paths and flowers. The couple was married to Polachek’s opera teacher and life-long mentor.
She also made the wedding band look like one of Drennan’s family heirlooms.
Despite a magical wedding, their marriage was not to last as two years later, Drennan and Polachek divorced. Though neither party has talked too much about their marriage split, she has mentioned that it happened when she was feeling very low and down on herself.
The divorce did not help, as she stated that her mother disapproved of her decision, and it even split her friend group in half. However, almost half a decade removed from the event, Polachek is doing wonders for herself and is more successful than ever.
Caroline Polachek is currently dating an artist named Matt Copson.