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Deb Talan 
Talan performing in NYC on April 22, 2006.Background information Birth name Deborah Ruth Talan Born January 27, 1968 Origin Massachusetts, USA Genres Indie Folk, Pop-folk Occupations Singer-songwriter Instruments Vocals, Guitar Years active 1994–present Labels Nettwerk, Happyhead Music Associated acts The Weepies, Hummingfish Website theweepies.com Deborah Ruth "Deb" Talan (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for being in the folk-pop duo The Weepies.
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Early life and career
Born in suburban Massachusetts outside of Boston, Talan grew up in the small town of Pelham, Massachusetts and attended Amherst Regional High School (ARHS). She later attended Brown University, where she was a member of the Chattertocks, Brown's oldest all-female a cappella group, before moving to Oregon, where she was a member of Hummingfish, a Portland band, for six years.
Talan's recurring lyrical motifs include celestial objects, birds, nature, and various historical figures (e.g., Marc Chagall in "Painting By Chagall," Amelia Earhart in "Thinking Amelia," and Vincent van Gogh in "Vincent").
Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn inspired Deb Talan to write "Tell Your Story Walking". This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One), a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. "Tell Your Story Walking" was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest.
In addition to The Weepies' albums, Talan and Tannen collaborated with singer/actress Mandy Moore on her 2007 album Wild Hope. Together, they wrote and recorded five songs with Mandy — the single "Extraordinary," the title track "Wild Hope," "All Good Things," "Few Days Down" and "Looking Forward to Looking Back." [1]
"Forgiven"[disambiguation needed
] played over the closing credits of the 2001 movie Lovely & Amazing.Personal life
Currently, she resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and musical partner Steve Tannen and their two sons, Theo Samuel (b. October 2007) and Alexander (b. spring 2010). Together they are the indie pop-folk duo The Weepies.
Discography
Year Title Label 1996 Songs for a Misfit Heart Independent 2000 Something Burning Happyhead Music 2001 Sincerely Happyhead Music 2003 A Bird Flies Out Independent References
- ^ "On new album and in films, Moore has an edge". The Boston Globe. 19 June 2007. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/06/19/on_new_album_and_in_films_moore_has_an_edge/. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
External links
- Deb Talan Official Site
- http://www.artistsforliteracy.org
- Deb Talan collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
- Deb Talan on Last.fm
- Lovely & Amazing soundtrack
Categories:- Living people
- American singer-songwriters
- Musicians from Massachusetts
- Musicians from California
- 1968 births
- American female singers
- American folk singers
- American singer-songwriter stubs
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