Mia Doi Todd
b. 30 June 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA. Southern California-based singer-songwriter Todd's art-folk first bloomed in the mid-90s, a touch too early for the "freak folk' wave, but by the next decade she had made a solid connection with the indie/acoustic audience. Todd started performing in 1994, issuing her first single two years later. She released her album debut, the acoustic collection the ewe and the eye, in 1997 on the Los Angeles-based label Xmas Records. The following year, half-Japanese Todd went to Japan on an East Asian Studies fellowship, and her study of Japanese Butoh dancing strongly informed her subsequent work. Her preference for e.e. cummings-style album titles continued with 1999"s come out of your mine, recorded shortly before her Japan stay. Back in Los Angeles, she recorded zeroone on her home computer, but her low-budget, lone troubadour days ended when she signed to Columbia Records. Her 2002 Mitchell Froom-produced The Golden State found Todd adding full band accompaniment and capital letters to her stark early songs. Too idiosyncratic for the majors, she quickly returned to the indie world, recording for Plug Research and her own City Zen label, and finding favour with a cult fanbase.
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Albums
- (2002) The Golden State
Top Tracks
- Digital
- Autumn
- Poppy Fields
- Growing Pains
- 88 Ways
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