He spent his early years living in and around Guelph, Ontario. Kingsbury comes from a musical family. His mother Birdie Kingsbury was a pianist and a music director and Parkwood Gardens Community church in Guelph and Kingsbury sang in the church choir. After piano lessons as a child, Kingsbury stopped playing music until a friend of his mother gave him a guitar when he was fourteen. He began to teach himself to play and write music. Kingsbury attended John F. Ross in Guelph where he began playing in bands when he was sixteen. Christian rock was an early influence for Kingsbury, especially the music of pioneering American Christian rock artist Larry Norman. Kingsbury cites his later influences as Pavement and Palace and Dinosaur Jr. He played with Gentleman Reg while in high school, only playing one show outside of Guelph.\n', '

After high school, Kingsbury moved to Ottawa where he played with a number of bands such as the Killers and Geoffrey Pye, before joining Clark the band. While in Ottawa he met Jeremy Gara. The two played together in a band in Ottawa and would later move to Montreal and play together in The New International Standards, Arcade Fire and Kingsbury\'s solo project, Sam Patch.\n', '

Kingsbury moved to Montreal in 2001. Kingsbury had a hard time finding full-time work with a band and made ends meet by working as a telemarketer for a pharmaceutical company. At the same time, he played in a number of bands, including the New International Standards. The New International Standards included Richard Reed Parry, Annesley Black and Mike Feuerstack. The band was active for about two years. It was Parry that brought Kingsbury into Arcade Fire.\n', '

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