Mia Dyson

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As a little girl growing up in a sleepy surf town on Australia’s southern coast, Mia Dyson would sit in her father’s workshop and watch him build custom guitars by hand. He would play records by The Band and Bob Dylan and she would dream of playing lead guitar in arenas around the world.

From an early age Mia was all too aware of the lack of female musicians she could look up to. “When people think of a musician or rockstar, they almost always think of someone male. If you want to be a serious musician/songwriter as a female, what is that? What does that look like?” says Dyson.

She vividly remembers the day her father brought home the album Nick of Time with Bonnie Raitt on the cover, guitar strapped to her back like a rifle. She played that record over and over until the grooves wore out. After school, while her classmates from the all-girl school she attended were busy shopping and obsessing over the opposite sex, Mia was practicing solos by Raitt and Ry Cooder on a one of a kind guitar built by her father.

At 13, her father took her to see Bonnie Raitt play The Melbourne Concert Hall. Thirteen years later, she would play that same venue… as the opening act for Bonnie Raitt. It was a dream come true when Raitt asked her to duet on “Love Letter,” night after night.

On the road since she was 19, Mia went on to record three self-produced albums, each nominated for an ARIA (Australian GRAMMY). Her sophomore album, Parking Lots won the ARIA and garnered her a nomination for “Best Female Artist.”
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  • kali_ram

    nice!

    July 2011
  • launderground

    this girl is good.

    August 2010
  • GSWJ

    Mia is cool and her music is raw, sexy and so emotive. She is amazing live ... captivating & engrossing.

    September 2008
  • nattogc

    finally i made it into top listeners....i deserve to be there!!

    September 2007
  • WilliamNl

    Watch The Music Viedos of Mia Dyson:http://www.last.fm/user/WilliamNl/journal/2007/08/8/495629/

    August 2007
  • mangomagic

    saw her at clapton concert awesome!

    February 2007
  • DADGBE

    Wooo! Mia Dyson! She is more blues though, I don't know why blues is not tagged very high.

    July 2006
  • nattogc

    I love Mia Dyson!!! You should check out the backstage area of her website - you can get free live tracks...wicked Mia Wicked!!

    June 2006
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