Ingrid Michaelson

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Ingrid Michaelson
Background information
Birth name Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson
Born December 8, 1979 (1979-12-08) (age 32)[1]
Origin Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Genres Indie pop, indie folk
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano, ukulele
Years active 2002–present
Labels Cabin 24 Records
Website Official website
Twitter
YouTube

Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson (born December 8, 1979) is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy[2] The Big C and One Tree Hill,[3] as well as in Old Navy's fall 2007 Fair Isle[4] and Opel's/Vauxhall's Meriva 2010 advertising campaign.[5][6]

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[edit] Biography

Michaelson was born to artistic parents. Her father is a composer and her mother is a sculptor. Michaelson took up piano at age four, and trained until seven at Manhattan's Third Street Music School, continuing for many more years at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. While there she met vocal coach Elizabeth McCullough, who worked with her through high school.[7] She is a graduate of Staten Island Technical High School and Binghamton University, where she received a degree in theater.[7] While at Binghamton University she was a member of the Binghamtonics, a co-ed acappella group, as well as the Pappy Parker Players, an improv comedy group, and the theatre repertory company under Sue Peters. Her time at Binghamton is mentioned in the song "The Hat." She grew up doing a musical theater group called "Kids On Stage." Later in life, she became a director until she decided to pursue her career in music.

Toward the end of 2008, she opened for Jason Mraz on his Europe tour, touring in the UK, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and France among others. In the second half of 2009, Ingrid began her "Everybody" tour of the United States and Europe which continued in 2010.

In 2010 Ingrid was engaged to fellow artist Greg Laswell.[8] They are now married, which the singer acknowledged on her Twitter on January 16th 2012.[9]

[edit] Television appearances

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A number of Michaelson's songs have been used in the TV series Grey's Anatomy. "The Way I Am" was featured in "Six Days (Part 2)" (January 11, 2007), garnering attention from viewers. "Breakable" was featured in "Staring at the Sun" (16 November 2006). "Corner of Your Heart" was featured in "Testing 1-2-3" (13 September 2007)."Keep Breathing" was featured on the May 17, 2007, season 3 finale, "Didn't We Almost Have It All". "Giving Up" was featured in the 22 May 2008 season 4 finale, "Freedom". "Turn to Stone", a new B-side single from her upcoming album, Everybody, was featured in the 7 May 2009 season 5 episode, "What a Difference a Day Makes". "All Love" was featured in the second hour of the Season 5 finale. "The Chain" was featured in the 1 October 2009 season 6 episode "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me". On January 21, 2010, "Everybody" was played on Season 6."Everybody" also appeared on "Brothers & Sisters" Season 4 Episode 14.

Four of her songs have also appeared in One Tree Hill. "Masochist" was featured in Season 4, Episode 13: "Pictures of You"; "Overboard", was used in Season 4, Episode 14: "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers"; "The Way I Am" was used in Season 4, Episode 19: "Ashes of Dreams You Let Die"; and "Can't Help Falling In Love" was used in Season 6, Episode 23: "Forever And Almost Always". Other appearances include "The Way I Am" and "Breakable" in The Real World: Denver, as well as "The Way I Am", "Die Alone" and "Far Away (Untitled)" in The Bad Girls Club. "Breakable" was also featured in Season 2, Episode 3: "The List is Life" of Kyle XY. Old Navy featured "The Way I Am" in its fall/winter advertisement. "Are We There Yet" was featured on the ABC family show "Make it or Break it"

On Valentine's Day 2008, Michaelson was the musical guest on Good Morning America, and the following day she appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly. She has also appeared on VH1, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The AT&T Blue Room, Live From The Artists Den, NPR's Bryant Park Project, The Rachael Ray Show and Last Call with Carson Daly, where she performed with Joshua Radin.

Her song "Be OK" appears in The House Bunny, episode 15 of the second season of NBC's 2010 series Parenthood, a Traveler's Insurance commercial, a Mott's Apple Juice commercial featuring actress Marcia Cross.,[10] and a Ritz Crackers commercial in 2011. It was also used in a season 4 episode of Ugly Betty.

Michaelson recorded a duet with Sara Bareilles called "Winter Song", which featured on the The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs. An animated music video was released to accompany the song. They performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on December 9, 2008. This was also featured in Grey's Anatomy's fifth season. "Winter Song" was also featured on the eighth episode of season 4 of Brothers & Sisters, the seventeenth episode of Scrubs season eight, and on the fifth episode of the third season of Army Wives. Michaelson and Bareilles performed the song at the 2010 National Christmas Tree Lighting.

Her song "Starting Now" appeared in Pretty Little Liars on July 20, 2010, in the seventh episode of season 1, "The Homecoming Hangover".

Her song "You and I", from the 2008 album Be OK, plays over the credits of the 2010 romantic comedy My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, starring Alyssa Milano, Christopher Gorham, Michael Landes, Tom Lenk and Beau Bridges.

Part of her song "Everybody" was featured in 2010's Ramona and Beezus.

Additionally, her song "The Chain" was featured in the CW show Hellcats, season 1, episode 12 "Papa, Oh Papa" on January, 24, 2011.

Her song "Maybe" was featured on the ABC medical drama Body of Proof in the episode "Society Hill", the sixth episode of the first season. It was also used on the USA network show In Plain Sight, in the episode, "I'm a Liver, Not a Fighter," in Season 4.

Her song "Sort Of" was used on the advert for the internet browser Google Chrome. The advert premièred during the champions league final in May 2011. Her song "Turn to Stone" was featured on The Vampire Diaries in the episode "As I Lay Dying", the season 2 finale on May 12, 2011. On June 15, 2011, "Turn to Stone" was used for a contemporary dance routine on So You Think You Can Dance.

Her song "Keep Breathing" was featured on The Big C in Series one, Episode 2 towards the end of the episode. It has also appeared in a Grey's Anatomy episode.

Travis Wall choreographed a duet to her song "Turn to Stone" for the eighth season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance. It was performed by Melanie Moore and Marko Germar in the Top 20 episode on June 15, 2011, and again during the season finale as a judges' pick.

Michaelson's song "Are We There Yet?" from the album Everybody was featured on Season Three Episode 1 "The Birthday" of The Vampire Diaries on September 15, 2011.

Michaelson's cover of "Can't Help Falling in Love" is featured in the trailer for Like Crazy which will be released on October 28, 2011.[dated info]

In October 2011, "Everybody" appear in Disney's Lady and the Tramp, Diamond Edition Trailer music, along The Lion King Blu-ray edition Sneak Peaks.

Her song "All Love" appeared over the end credits of episode seven of the HBO series Enlightened first broadcast on November 21, 2011.

Ingrid performed "Blood Brothers" at the 85th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2011.[11]

[edit] Collaborations

Ingrid Michaelson performing in Amsterdam, 2009

In 2006, Ingrid teamed up with William Fitzsimmons on his album Goodnight, which was released that same year.

Ingrid and her friend Sara Bareilles co-wrote "Winter Song" which was featured on The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs, a compilation of both original recordings as well as classic holiday tracks sung by a lineup of female singer-songwriters. Ingrid also worked with Bareilles, performing "Winter Song" for the President Obama and his family as well as many spectators at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in December 2010. In 2011, "Winter Song" reached number 2 on the Irish Singles Chart.[12]

Ingrid provided back-up vocals on two songs from PlayRadioPlay!'s album Texas, including "I'm a Pirate, You're a Princess" and the title track, "Texas".

Ingrid provided back-up vocals on Greg Laswell's album, Take A Bow, which was released on May 4, 2010. Collaboration was done on the songs "Take Everything," "My Fight (For You)," and "Come Clean."[13][14]

Ingrid's band includes Allie Moss and Bess Rogers on guitar, who are singer/songwriters in their own right. Allie Moss released a 2009 EP entitled Passerby. A single from the EP, "Corner", has been picked up by BT for their BT Infinity television commercials in the UK. Other band members include Chris Kuffner (Bass), husband of Bess Rogers(Guitar), Saul Simon-MacWilliams (keys) and Elliot Jacobson (drums).

In 2010, Ingrid co-wrote a song entitled "Parachute" with Marshall Altman which was covered by singer Cheryl Cole on her debut solo album 3 Words; it hit number 1 in the UK. Ingrid initially felt the track was "so poppy" that she could not release it herself. However, after the song was reworked by "Everybody" producer Dan Romer to make a more "interesting, funky production", Ingrid released the song as a personal single.[15] To date, the song has received two separate music videos.

Of the release of "Parachute" and upcoming material, Ingrid explained in a 2010 interview with Billboard.com, "I just felt like I wanted to put something out. I'm not ready to put a full album out, so we thought we'd put this out and see how people take it or don't take it," saying that she expects to release her next album, "probably in the middle of next year." [16]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
US
[17]		 US Rock
[18]		 US Heat
[19]		 US Indie
[20]		 CAN
[21]		 GER
[22]
Slow the Rain
  • Release date: January 10, 2005
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: CD, music download
 — — — — — —
Girls and Boys
  • Release date: May 16, 2006
  • Label: Cabin 24 Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 63 17 1 6 — 100
Be OK
  • Release date: October 14, 2008
  • Label: Cabin 24 Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 35 13 — 2 — —
Everybody
  • Release date: August 25, 2009
  • Label: Cabin 24 Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 18 7 — — — —
Human Again
  • Release date: January 24, 2012
  • Label: Cabin 24 Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 5 2 — 1 22 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

[edit] Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)		 Album
US
[23]		 US AC
[24]		 US Adult
[25]		 US
Rock
[26]		 AUT
[27]		 CAN
[21]		 GER
[28]		 UK
[29]
2007 "The Way I Am" 37 20 15 — 36 51 69 — Girls and Boys
2008 "Be OK" 91 — — — 45 — 64 174 Be OK
2009 "Maybe" — 27 14 38 — — 97 — Everybody
2010 "Everybody" — — — — — — — —
2012 "Ghost" — — — — — — — — Human Again
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

[edit] Other charted songs

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US CAN
[31]		 IRE
[12]
"Winter Song"
(Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson)		 2008 — 97 2 The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs
"Fire" 2012 103
[32]		 — — Human Again

[edit] References

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  2. ^ The Making of Musicians on MySpace. NPR Talk of the Nation (May 21, 2007). Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
  3. ^ One Tree Hill Featured Music. CW (n.d.). Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
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  8. ^ "The DIY diva: Singer Ingrid Michaelson calls her own tune". Daily Mail. Associated Newspapers Limited. February 13, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1250275/Ingrid-Michaelson-The-singer-calls-tune.html. 
  9. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://www.twitter.com/ingridmusic. 
  10. ^ "Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Showbiz :: Cross' twins land mum a saucy role". Express.co.uk. 2008-12-17. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/76100/Cross-twins-land-mum-a-saucy-role. Retrieved 2012-02-10. 
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  15. ^ Blauvelt, Christian (2010-10-18). "Ingrid Michaelson's 'Parachute'video: An EW exclusive premiere | The Music Mix | EW.com". Music-mix.ew.com. http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/10/18/ingrid-michaelson-parachute-video-cheryl-cole/. Retrieved 2012-02-10. 
  16. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/news/ingrid-michaelson-aims-for-less-ukulele-1004116373.story
  17. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=305&g=Albums. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 
  18. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Rock Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=408&g=Albums. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 
  19. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=324&g=Albums. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 
  20. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Independent Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=326&g=Albums. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 
  21. ^ a b "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Canadian Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=793&g=Singles. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  22. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: German Charts - Albums". Hung Medien. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Michaelson%2CIngrid/?type=longplay. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 
  23. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=379&g=Singles. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  24. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=341&g=Singles. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  25. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Adult Pop Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=343&g=Singles. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  26. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Album & Song Chart History - Rock Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/ingrid-michaelson/chart-history/775254?f=902&g=Singles. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  27. ^ "austriancharts.at - Austria Top 40". Hung Medien. http://www.austriancharts.at/search.asp?search=Ingrid+Michaelson&cat=s. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  28. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts - German Singles". Hung Medien. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Michaelson%2CIngrid/single. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  29. ^ "Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol". The Official Charts Company. http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM. Retrieved May 27, 2011. 
  30. ^ "American single certifications – Ingrid Michaelson – The Way I Am". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22The+Way+I+Am%22.  If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
  31. ^ "Canadian Singles Chart". Billboard. http://acharts.us/song/41045. Retrieved December 17, 2011. 
  32. ^ "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Chart Date: 2012-02-11)" (requires registration). Billboard. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/chart-search-results/singles/14060107. Retrieved February 03, 2012. 

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