Marian Call

Marian Call
Performing at the KSKA Day picnic in 2011
Background information
Born	(1982-02-24) February 24, 1982 (age 35)
Origin	Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Contemporary folk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, typewriter, rainstick, keyboards, bass
Years active	2007 – present
Website	mariancall.com

Marian Call (born February 24, 1982 in Gig Harbor, Washington), is an American singer-songwriter based in Juneau, Alaska. Call has released three studio albums: Vanilla (2007), Got to Fly (2008), and Something Fierce (2011). In early 2013, she released her first live album, Marian Call: Live in Europe. A fifth album called Sketchbook was released on December 1, 2013.

Call is known for her songs containing themes of geek culture, as well as her rise to popularity through the use of the Internet and social networking.

Call graduated from Stanford University in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in composition and vocal performance. She relocated to Alaska, where she spent two years waiting tables, learning the craft of songwriting. Inspired by the commentary track for the Firefly episode "Objects in Space", she wrote the song "Dark Dark Eyes" and shortly after booked three days in a studio to record what would become her first album, Vanilla, initially a side-project for family, friends, and small Alaskan audiences. However, when fans discovered some of her early tracks on her MySpace page, she realized she was accumulating a fan base.

One of the events that led to Call's accumulating fan-base came after she entered and won the Sing a Song of Saffron contest. The contest was held by a fan blog for the television series Firefly, and Call won with her song "It Was Good for You, Too". One of the judges of the contest was Christina Hendricks, who portrayed the character of Saffron, and had this to say about her winning entry, "She sounded just like me! It was fantastic, I really thought it was a good song even if you don't know the character."

In February 2008, Call announced that she would be going on tour for the first time, playing at venues in California and Texas. Nine months of her tour (June 2008 – March 2009) were spent on bus, which she named the Millennium Tortoise, traveling between the Western US and Canada, before returning home to Anchorage in July 2009 to begin work on her album, Something Fierce.