Jonathan Meiburg
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| Background information | |
| Born | March 1, 1976 |
| Genres | Rock, folk rock, indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, author |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Graveface, Sub Pop (as Shearwater) |
| Associated acts |
Shearwater Okkervil River Bill Callahan Blue Water White Death Sharon van Etten Wye Oak Thor Harris Hospital Ships Whu Gnu |
Jonathan Meiburg is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter for Shearwater.
Meiburg was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 1, 1976. He grew up in the southeastern United States, spending years in Raleigh, North Carolina. Meiburg earned his bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Religion from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and received a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study daily life in remote human communities. After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in geography with a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".
He is an avid birder, and the Shearwater name and various song and album titles reference birds.
Meiburg first started his public musical career with Whu Gnu in 1993 in Austin, Texas. He first came to national prominence collaborating with Will Sheff on multiple projects: Meiburg played keyboards in a band led by Sheff called Okkervil River, and both men wrote songs for a new project Meiburg named Shearwater. Due to the increased popularity of Shearwater and touring conflicts between the two acts, however, Meiburg left Okkervil River in May 2008.
Meiburg has performed and recorded as a solo artist. Buteo Buteo is a collection of early acoustic guitar and bass songs, self published through Shearwater's Bandcamp site.Why I Love My Home (Songs for Charles Burchfield) was initially a collaboration with Andy Stack of Wye Oak for the Whitney Museum of Art, but was recorded solo in the studio and self-released in 2011.
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