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"A singer/songwriter with a depth and a weight that is attempted but not achieved often. Meredith delivers honest lyrics wrapped in simple melodies that weave and curve around subliminal hooks and beautiful lucid turnarounds. It is not always about overproduction, too many chords and the busy sounds. Meredith represents a simplicity that shines through. This is why Meredith Heller is The PME Diamond in The Rough for this week.” - PME
Discography
mother tongue - 2002
currently releasing: soul siren - 2009
currently recording: passage of light
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Bio
To view videos please go to www.meredithheller.com
The first time I met the Muse I was about 9. She hunkered down beside me and whispered into my left ear. Since then I�ve dedicated my life to learning how to put myself in a space where I could hear her voice. Sometimes she gets fed up with me and doesn�t visit for a couple of years, but then there are those incandescent times when she moves in and we have a love fest.
In January of 2006 I experienced a creative renaissance. I wrote 13 new songs and started performing again. Song writing is a mystical process: I like to say that it isn�t so much that we write a song but that a song writes us. And I am always humbled, delighted, and grateful.
My musical & poetic influences include Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Jolie Holland, Ani Difranco, Gillian Welch, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Mama Cass, Tori Amos, Lucinda Williams, e.e. cummings, Mary Oliver, Octavio Paz, Hafiz.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a mime; I wanted to be in the circus. I studied theater and modern dance. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, but did most of my growing along the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. I have planted trees, painted faces, solo-backpacked through every National Park in the Western U.S. I have slept in graveyards and grape-vineyards all across Europe, taught poetry writing in the schools in Boulder, taken counsel from the Redwoods and written love songs to the Sea. I have lived in Manhattan, London, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Maryland, Boulder Colorado, Big Sur, Hawaii, and hidden hollows in the Blue Ridge. And in case you think I was just running around like a wild woman, I also achieved a dual Master's degree in writing and education.
For many years I lived as a mystic-gypsy: passionately seeking to understand myself, others, and the world. Mine has been a life infused, inspired, weathered, and wizened by love, loss, and every other unpredictable force in the Universe. As of 2003, I have made my home in Northern California and I�m not leaving. I�m digging deep roots, stretching graceful branches, and exploding in luminous blooms.
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