Miranda Lee Richards
Miranda Lee Richards ( born April 4, 1975 in San Francisco) is an American singer- songwriter.
Life
Miranda Lee Richards was born as the daughter of cartoonist Ted and Terese Richards and grew up in a relatively unconventional artistic milieu. Her childhood and youth in San Francisco have been significantly influenced by the underground comic scene, and the famous comic artist Robert Crumb was her de facto godfather. His first musical experiences were Lee Richards in school bands at McAteer High School of the Arts. After graduating, she initially decided to pursue a professional modeling career.
After a stay in Paris Lee Richards returned to her hometown and began studying at the San Francisco City College. During the study period, she met through a friend guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica know who gave her contacts with the music industry and was a bit of guitar lessons. In Kirk's basement studio, first songs were recorded. Copies of these recordings came later into the hands of the manager of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and he invited Miranda act a with the band. The first joint live concert was held at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco held in 1995. Although Lee Richards had finished their performances with the band after 6 months, they continued the musical collaboration with BJM continued further: she wrote "Reign On" on the "Bringing It All Back Home Again " EP and was co -author of "Before I Am Gone " on the album" Give It Back ".
After separating from BJM Lee Richards moved to Los Angeles and began to search for their own musical aesthetic. Here she met the producer Rick Parker know and took with him the debut album " The Here After There " on. The songs of this, felt inspired by the music of the 1960s work are marked by country, folk and neo- psychedelic rock. Many songs on this disc landed on soundtracks known American movies and television series such as, among others, Ghost Whisperer, One Tree Hill, Without a Trace and the thriller Suspect Zero. In subsequent years, the artist has played numerous concerts, worked in the studio with fellow artists such as Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tricky and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans. In 2007, she met The Jesus and Mary Chain during their tour of the U.S. West Coast and sang with Jim Reid " Sometimes Always " and "Just Like Honey ".
In 2009 the second album "Light of X", which includes melodic, mostly guitar-driven pieces appeared. Lee Richards has written all the songs of this work, including the string arrangements themselves. In addition, she has recorded acoustic guitar, the piano and the organ. Middle of the year she was with the previously unreleased song " Beautiful Day " on the soundtrack to the tragicomedy Adam - A story about two strangers. One little stranger than the other. represented.
In the 2010 published Delerium album " Remixed: The Definitive Collection" Lee Richards singing the remixed by British trance DJ Andy Moor song " Send Me an Angel".
Style
Miranda Lee Richards combines elements of folk, pop, country and psychedelic in their music. The artist herself preferred for the term " Psychedelic Chamber Folk Rock." Among her musical heroes, it is one Neil Young, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Blondie, Mazzy Star, Beck and Chrissie Hynde. Stylistically, some critics see parallels to Hope Sandoval, Cat Power, Bat for Lashes or Edie Brickell.
Discography
- The Here There anus ( Virgin Records, 2001)
- Early November EP ( 2008)
- Light of X ( Nettwerk Records, 2009)