Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Ellen Michaelson ( born December 8, 1979 in Staten Iceland, New York) is an American singer and songwriter. In 2007, Michaelson succeeded with their second album Girls and Boys of the first major commercial success; their titles were played in television series such as Grey 's Anatomy and One Tree Hill. Michaelson produces its settled in the area of indie-pop song itself and plays the recordings both the guitar and the piano part a.
Biography
Ingrid Michaelson was born in 1979 into a family of artists. Her father is a composer of classical music, her mother an artist and director of the Staten Iceland Museum. Ingrid Michaelson grew up in New York City's Staten Iceland, where her musical talent was recognized and encouraged early on. At age four she already had piano lessons, singing lessons later, the Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute in Staten Iceland.
Michaelson studied theater at Binghamton University and acted as director a theater troupe on their tour. During this time she began to compose her own songs. 2002 followed by the first appearances in a cafe bar in Staten Iceland. Michaelson decided a year later, on a self-produced album, Slow the Rain to take up some of their titles. Since no record label for Slow the Rain interested, Ingrid Michaelson released her debut self-published.
Their second album, Girls and Boys Ingrid Michaelson published in 2006 on the internet on the MySpace website. There, the music manager Lynn Grossman became aware of Michaelson and placed the title Breakable in November 2006 in an episode of the television series Grey's Anatomy. The use of this song sparked a huge demand for Ingrid Michaelson on the Internet from their MySpace page was crowded and the album Girls and Boys reached # 2 on the iTunes pop charts.
Michaelson's songs have been used in other episodes of Grey 's Anatomy as well as in several episodes of the drama series One Tree Hill. For the finale of the third season of Grey's Anatomy she had specially recorded a new title. In autumn 2007, the title The Way I Am was used for an advertising campaign of the clothing company Old Navy. Finally, Girls and Boys was re-released in September 2007, but again on their own independent label Cabin 24 The first single from the album, The Way I Am, placed in October 2007 on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached number 37
The success of Girls and Boys led to numerous television and concert performances from Ingrid Michaelsen in the United States. In fall 2008, she appeared in the opening act on the European tour by Jason Mraz. In addition, Michaelson involved in various fundraisers. Their third album Be OK, which contained in addition to live recordings and cover versions of several new songs, was released in October 2008 in the United States in favor of the charity Stand Up to Cancer. For a benefit album of the Los Angeles-based concert promoter Hotel Café Ingrid Michaelson composed together with Sara Bareilles Winter Song, the ballad, which grossed both together.
With a year late 2008 Girls and Boys was also published in Germany in December. The single The Way I Am already appeared previously on 28 November 2008.
For the published end of 2009 solo debut 3 Words by British singer Cheryl Cole, Ingrid Michaelson wrote with Marshall Altman title Parachute. The song became a Top 10 hit in the UK and brought Cole two nominations for the Brit Awards in the categories of Best British artist and best British single one. Published in 2010 Michaelson their own version of Parachute, beyond Michaelson's albums Everybody and Boys and Girls and the single was The Way I Am published in the United Kingdom.
The song Everybody has been through daily repetition in television advertising ( Almased ) in Germany to the catchy tune.
Discography
Albums
- 2005: Slow the Rain
- 2007: Girls and Boys
- 2008: Be OK
- 2009: Everybody
- 2012: Human Again
Singles
- 2007: The Way I Am
- 2008: Be OK
- 2008: Winter Song (feat. Sara Bareilles )
- 2009: Maybe
- 2010: Parachute
- 2010: Everybody
- 2012: Ghost