Meg Myers
| Meg Myers | |
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Myers performing in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Born |
October 6, 1986 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2011 – present |
| Labels | [GOOD]CROOK, Atlantic |
| Associated acts | Doctor Rosen Rosen |
| Website | megmyers |
Meg Myers (born October 6, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Tennessee. Myers moved to Los Angeles to pursue music and she met Doctor Rosen Rosen, who signed her to his production company. In 2012, Myers signed to Atlantic Records.
Myers has released one LP, Sorry (2015), and two EPs, Make a Shadow (2014) and Daughter in the Choir (2012), which are all available for purchase on her website.
Born in Nashville, Myers spent the first five years of her life in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains where she was raised by her father, a truck driver, and her mother, a Jehovah's Witness. After her parents divorced, her mother married a fellow Witness, who moved the family to Ohio. Her mother and stepfather worked for a cleaning business. When she was 12, Myers and her siblings were taken out of school when the family moved, this time to Florida, where they bounced from town to town throughout her teen years. During this period, Myers began singing, writing songs on keyboard, and teaching herself to play guitar. She played bass in a band she started with her brother.
A few days shy of her 20th birthday, Myers made the decision to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. She lived in a studio apartment with her then-boyfriend and got a job waitressing at a coffee shop in Hollywood and performed whenever she could secure a gig. Although the relationship with her boyfriend ended, Myers then met Rosen who signed her to his production company. The two began writing songs, including all of Daughter in the Choir and Make a Shadow. The full-length album Sorry followed in 2015. According to Myers, her goal for her music is simple, stating that "I want it to make people not afraid to feel."
Myers released her debut Daughter in the Choir EP in March 2012. Prior to release of the EP, she released the single "Monster," which was her first big success, thanks to its music video, which was directed by A.P. Fisher and produced by Filippo Nesci, as noted by LA Weekly. Her follow-up single, "Tennessee," caught the attention of British radio DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who named it her "Game Changer" track of the week. In August 2012, Myers completed a month-long residency at Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles and began to generate interest from record labels.
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