Mieka Pauley

Mieka Pauley
Mieka Pauley at Terminal 5, 2008
Background information
Birth name	Mary Dominica Pauley
Born	October 22, 1980 (1980-10-22) (age 31) Boston, MA, USA
Genres	Alt-rock, Folk, Indie-pop, Singer-songwriter
Occupations	Vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, touring artist, recording artist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2000–present
Website	mieka.com

Mary Dominica Pauley (born October 22, 1980 in Boston), more commonly known as Mieka Pauley, is an American singer-songwriter. In 2008, she won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch^[1] and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Competition,^[2] and she was nominated for a Boston Music Award.^[3] In 2005, she won the grand prize in the first Starbucks Emerging Artist competition.^[4] She has appeared on Daytrotter,^[5] PRI Mountain Stage,^[6] BBC London, and Fox25 Boston.^[7]

Pauley was born in Boston and raised in Ohio, Kentucky, South Florida and Colorado, where she attended Cherry Creek High School. She returned to Boston to attend Harvard University, where she entered the local music scene and began performing at coffeehouses and open-mic nights. She has gone on tour with Citizen Cope and Edwin McCain. In November 2007, she released a full length album Elijah Drop Your Gun, financed by fans.^[8][9]

References

1. ^ Marketwire
2. ^ AcousticMusicScene
3. ^ Boston.com
4. ^ BMI news
5. ^ Daytrotter
6. ^ Public Radio International
7. ^ my Fox Boston
8. ^ Boston Globe
9. ^ Boston Herald

External links

• Mieka.com - official website
• Mieka Pauley collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Mieka Pauley on Myspace

Persondata
Name	Pauley, Mieka
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Date of birth	October 22, 1980
Place of birth	Boston, MA, USA
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