Lynn Miles
| Lynn Miles | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sweetsburg, Quebec, Canada |
| Origin | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Folk |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels | Philo |
| Website | lynnmilesmusic.com |
Lynn Miles (born Sweetsburg, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She is a Juno Award winning musician.
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[edit] Early life and education
Miles was born outside Montreal in the town of Sweetsburg, Quebec. Her father was a harmonica player and jazz fan while her mother listened to both opera and country music. Miles learned to play the violin, guitar, piano and flute during her school years.[1] She began writing songs at the age of ten and began to perform at the age of sixteen. While in her twenties Miles studied voice with a private teacher and classical music history and theory at Carleton University in Ottawa.[1][2]
[edit] Career
Miles became a voice teacher herself and taught at the Ottawa Folklore Centre. Her first recording of original material was a nine song demo which she created in 1987.[1]
In the early 1990s Miles released a self-titled album plus an additional recording called Chalk This One Up to the Moon. Her composition "Remembrance Day" became part of a nationally televised video created by the Canadian Armed Forces.[2]
Miles' 1996 album, Slightly Haunted received favorable reviews in the New York Times and was a Billboard Top Ten Pick of the Year.[1]
In 1997 she released the album Night in a Strange Town.[2]
Miles' reunited with collaborator and guitarist Ian LeFeuvre for her 2001 album, Unravel, which won the 2003 Juno award for Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo.[2][3]
Miles was nominated in 2005 for a Canadian Folk Music Awards.[4]
In 2006 Miles recorded the album Love Sweet Love which was released on Red House Records characterized as a "road album". It was recorded with guitarist Ian LeFeuvre and Keith Glass, drummer Peter Von Althen, John Geggiem on bass, James Stephens on violin.[5] It was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award.[1][2][3]
In 2008 and 2009 Miles re-recorded her earlier work in a two volume, songbook called Black Flowers.
Her 2010 album Fall for Beauty was nominated at the Juno Awards of 2011 in the Roots & Traditional Album of the year category.[3]
Miles' songcraft was praised by New York Times critic, John Pareles.[6]
[edit] Personal
Miles lived in Ottawa and Nashville before moving to Los Angeles in 1997.[1][2]
[edit] Discography
- Lynn Miles, (cassette demo) 1987
- Chalk This One Up to the Moon, 1991
- Slightly Haunted, 1996
- Night in a Strange Town, 1997
- Unravel, 2001
- Love Sweet Love, 2006
- Black Flowers, Volume 1, 2008
- Black Flowers, Volume 2, 2009
- Fall for Beauty, 2010
[edit] Videography
- Lynn Miles: Live at the Chapel, (DVD) 2007
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f "Lynn Miles Bio". redhouserecords.com. Red House Records. http://www.redhouserecords.com/Miles.html. Retrieved 11 April 2011.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f Hage, Erik. "Lynn Miles Biography". allmusic.com. Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynn-miles-p173287/biography. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ a b c "Juno Awards Database". junoawards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. http://junoawards.ca/awards/artist-summary/?artist_name=Lynn+Miles&submit=Search. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ "Archives » Results 2005". folkawards.ca. Canadian Folk Music Awards. http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2005/. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ "Love Sweet Love Credits". artistdirect.com. Artist Direct. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3346720,00.html. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ Pareles, Jon (20 April 1996). "Arts » In Performance;POP". New York Times. nytimes.com (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.). ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/20/arts/in-performance-pop-088722.html?scp=1&sq=Slightly%20Haunted%20Lynn%20Miles&st=cse. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
[edit] External links
- Lynn Miles official site
