Olga Wilhelmine Munding
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Olga Wilhelmine Munding |
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October 18, 1976 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Genres | Blues, country, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, producer, singer |
| Years active | 1990–present (actress) 1996–present (singer) |
| Labels | 219 Records |
| Website | www |
Olga Wilhelmine Munding (born October 18, 1976) is an American New Orleans-based blues musician, producer and actress.
Munding was classically trained in music as a child. She went to the Nueva School for gifted children in Hillsborough, CA, where she received a Yehudi Menuhin scholarship in classical piano, violin and music composition. She went into public school when her parents divorced and that began a long spiral downwards into "the blues", which finally culminated into hitting rock bottom with her divorce many years from Clarksdale-based Squirrel Nut Zippers musician James "Jimbo" Mathus. She studied drama and musical theater at San Mateo Performing Arts center in San Mateo, CA and Judy Berlin's, Kids on Camera in San Francisco.
In college, she lived in Boulder, CO and hosted several radio shows at KGNU and produced a syndicated college show called Joes Blue Plate Special which aired on over 200 college stations and had a sponsorship with Doc Martin's. At the radio station, she hosted six regular local radio shows on KGNU Boulder/Denver CO, as well as ran the Community Calendar. In 2000, she was voted "the most alluring voice on the front range" by Best Of Boulder, Boulder Weekly newspaper.
Munding is a blues vocalist and guitar player known for her sultry voice and Southern sound. Munding first took interest in the blues, when she was in high school. She developed her signature style through an extended tutelage under the pioneering female blues musician Jessie Mae Hemphill. Olga and Jessie recorded together extensively and participated together in Martin Scorsese’s The Blues.
Munding has released three albums of her own, "Now Is The Time", "Kiss Your Blues Away", and "Blues Babe." In 2011, she released her fourth album "Whatever You Want", which was written with Cody Dickinson of the Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars and mixed and produced by Emmy winning producer Winn McElroy.
She has played with Chris Isaak, Los Lobos, North Mississippi Allstars and co-engineered the Grammy nominated song, "Monkey to Man" by Elvis Costello.
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