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Formal Connection With:

The Microphones
  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Advisory Committee", "C'mon Miracle", "Share This Place

Biography

Mirah (pronounced mear-rah) -- full name Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn -- was born on her mother's kitchen table. The daughter of artistic parents, the singer/songwriter had a passion for music from early childhood. While fronting the jazz band the Hot Set in Olympia, WA, playing wedding parties and bar mitzvahs to earn extra cash, Mirah began writing her own brand of lo-fi, slice-of-life indie pop, a style later compared to that of grrrl rocker Liz Phair. Powered only by her guitar and standout singing voice -- known around small-town Olympia as the sexiest voice in rock -- Mirah performed her own songs under her own name and people took notice. Phil Elvrum of the psychedelic pop group the Microphones invited Mirah to lend her lilting voice and guitar playing to the Microphones' albums Don't Wake Me Up and Window. She later toured with the band across North America and Canada. Mirah's first full-length solo album, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This, was released in June 2000 by the K label. Elvrum produced the freshman record, assisting with much of the instrumentation. Yo Yo Recordings released her single-sided album Storageland in 2001. In 2002, Mirah returned to K with the breathtaking Advisory Committee and, with collaborator Ginger Brooks Takahashi, released Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project in summer 2003. The following year was also busy for Mirah: To All We Stretch the Open Arm (which also featured the Black Cat Orchestra) and C'mon Miracle both arrived in 2004. The remix collection Joyride appeared in late 2006, while Share This Place, a concept album about the lives of insects featuring Spectratone International, was released in summer 2007. The following year The Old Days Feeling, a collection of pre-You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This songs with liner notes courtesy of Calvin Johnson, arrived, and Mirah's fourth solo album, (A)spera, which featured production by Elvrum, Tucker Martine, and Adam Selzer, appeared in 2009. ~ Betsy Boyd, All Music Guide
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Mirah

Mirah performing at the Rio Theatre,
Santa Cruz, California, Jan. 2008
Background information
Birth name Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn
Born September 17, 1974 (1974-09-17) (age 35)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Genres Indie rock
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active 1997-present
Labels K Records
Associated acts Phil Elvrum of The Microphones
Black Cat Orchestra

Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born September 17, 1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)[1], is an American musician based in Portland, Oregon.[2] She has released five albums under the K Records label. She is close friends with and has collaborated with Phil Elvrum of The Microphones. She has worked extensively with the Black Cat Orchestra.

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Background

Mirah was born the youngest of three children, in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia, where she lived for most of her childhood. She started writing music from a very young age, with her first song at four years old.[3] When she was twelve, Mirah appeared on Double Dare, a television game show.[4] "I actually used the money that I won on Double Dare to pay for the time I spent on the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament." She began singing and performing at 18 when she moved to Olympia, Washington and attended Evergreen State College.

Music career

Mirah released her first album, Storageland on Yoyo Recordings in 1997, and joined K records in 1999[5]. Traditionally a solo performer, Mirah struck out in late 2004 on a southwestern US tour for the first time enlisting a band. The band consisted of Nora Danielson (who is featured on recordings by The Mountain Goats, The Intima, Tara Jane O'Neil, Liarbird), Dan Sasaki (Enemymine, Sedan, The Old Haunts), Themba Lewis (Liarbird, The Intima, Tara Jane O'Neil, Jackie-O Motherfucker), and Alex Yusimov (Duck Duck Gray Duck and many more). Nora, Alex, and Themba have also been featured on Mirah's recorded releases. Mirah also previously was a member of The Drivers, an all-female Olympia band. Mirah's music is featured in the documentary, Young, Jewish, and Left.[6] In 2006, K Records released Joyride: Remixes, a re-mix album of other K Records artists covering Mirah's songs. In July 2008, her song "The Garden" was featured in the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance". Her latest album, (a)spera, was released on March 10, 2009.

Personal

Mirah is openly lesbian.[7] Her sister is Emily Ana Zeitlyn of The Weeds.[8] Mirah is Jewish, and her middle name means "good day" or "holy day" in Hebrew.

Discography

References

  1. ^ SOUTHERN | mirah > biography
  2. ^ Official MySpace page
  3. ^ neumu - "Waiting For Mirah's C'mon Miracle", edited by Michael Goldberg
  4. ^ juliafriedman.com
  5. ^ SOUTHERN | mirah > biography
  6. ^ Jewish Film Archive Online
  7. ^ neumu [datastream ]
  8. ^ Taking Root

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