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Mia Doi Todd (born June 30, 1975) is a musician from Los Angeles, California, USA. She moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1993 to attend Yale University. Her first album, the ewe and the eye, was recorded at the Spaceshed, the recording studio/garage belonging to the LA band Further. It came out on their label, Xmas Records, in the spring of 1997, as she was graduating from college. She moved to New York City and started playing in clubs. Elliott Smith and the Palace Brothers were big influences of hers at the time. That fall, she recorded her second album, come out of your mine, which was released on The Communion Label in 1999.
She lived in Japan for most of 1998, studying first with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and at Asbestos-kan, and then with Min Tanaka at Body Weather Farm. She speaks rudimentary Japanese. Returning home to Los Angeles, she recorded most of her next album, zeroone, on a Power Mac G4 and started City Zen Records to release it in 2001.
Her first three albums were solo acoustic recordings. After these, she started to play with a band. They had been called Los Cincos and were renamed Syncopation. They never recorded much together, though. She signed a contract with Sony/Columbia Records, and recorded The Golden State, culling songs from her previous albums. Mitchell Froom and Yves Beauvais helped her produce it. She recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, and the album came out in the fall of 2002 and was generally well received by critics, though one writer referred to Mia as “jaw-droppingly pretentious”. For a year, she toured the US and Europe, on her own and then with Alaska! and Lou Barlow’s Folk Implosion. Sony chose at this time not to renew her contract.
She lived in Japan for most of 1998, studying first with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and at Asbestos-kan, and then with Min Tanaka at Body Weather Farm. She speaks rudimentary Japanese. Returning home to Los Angeles, she recorded most of her next album, zeroone, on a Power Mac G4 and started City Zen Records to release it in 2001.
Her first three albums were solo acoustic recordings. After these, she started to play with a band. They had been called Los Cincos and were renamed Syncopation. They never recorded much together, though. She signed a contract with Sony/Columbia Records, and recorded The Golden State, culling songs from her previous albums. Mitchell Froom and Yves Beauvais helped her produce it. She recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, and the album came out in the fall of 2002 and was generally well received by critics, though one writer referred to Mia as “jaw-droppingly pretentious”. For a year, she toured the US and Europe, on her own and then with Alaska! and Lou Barlow’s Folk Implosion. Sony chose at this time not to renew her contract.
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distant_biscuit wrote:
She sounds a lot like Shara Worden, I think.
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PlasticParts wrote:
in the end you say nothing... <3
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crazystargrl wrote:
she's great.. <3
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fraine wrote:
\o/
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Mynoreti wrote:
my room is white
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ESPEJUELOS wrote:
i love you.
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grrsawn wrote:
Wow. I might just be in love with this woman.
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Doxepine wrote:
Mia pojawiła się na scenie muzycznej wtedy, gdy nastała moda na pobożny, delikatny folk. Różni się jednak od setek artystek tegoż nurtu... Jest dojrzalsza, kroczy indywidualną drogą, nie komponuje utworów, których potem nie sposób od siebie odróżnić... Jest prawdziwą oryginalnością na folkowopodobnej scenie...
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Capz-Lock wrote:
her music moves me =]
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zachwernicke wrote:
what a great voice!
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tsunamisurfing wrote:
are we goin' to give up or are we goin' to try?
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wiscousin wrote:
muy bello.
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elsimondark wrote:
*______*
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dawei_maikelin wrote:
beautiful endless....
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one80 wrote:
This woman is brilliant :)
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magaut wrote:
mia is also similar to sidsel endresen who's my favorite.
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Bayou16 wrote:
wonderful artist!
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suivant wrote:
:~
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lunaplum wrote:
Saw her open for Jose Gonzalez in Orlando last month and she performed a cover of Fairport Convention's Who Knows Where the Time Goes... she sounded so much like Sandy Denny to me that it was almost like watching her! But Mia's stuff stands on its own. : )
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