Ingrid Michaelson

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With her piano-fueled songwriting, witty wordplay, and slight vocal vibrato, Ingrid Michaelson carries the tradition of the female singer/songwriter into the 21st century. Befitting a musician of the digital age, Michaelson first gained wide exposure through spots on TV soundtracks, including Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill. Born and raised on New York's Staten Island to an artist mother and classical composer father, she began exploring music through piano lessons at the age of four. After college, she toured with a national theater troupe and spent her free time writing songs, later compiling them into an online-distributed recording entitled Slow the Rain.

Michaelson blazed her own trail by independently issuing her proper debut, the engaging Girls and Boys, in 2006; following the inclusion of her music in several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, she then released a remastered version of the album on her own Cabin 24 Records in January 2007. Three months later, she won a national songwriting contest sponsored by Mountain Stage, a radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide. "The Way I Am" was then picked up by Old Navy, who used it to soundtrack one of their clothing commercials, and Michaelson began making headlines as one of the country's most promising independent artists. A benefit project comprised of live recordings, new songs, and rarities, Be OK was released in 2008. Michaelson joined the Hotel Cafe Tour that fall in support of the album, whose proceeds went toward cancer research, and later toured Europe alongside Jason Mraz.

For her "proper" follow-up to Girls and Boys, Ingrid Michaelson retreated to a Manhattan studio alongside producer Dan Romer. 40 newly composed songs were whittled down to a total of 12, with more emphasis being paid to the songwriter's peppier material. Featuring a string section on several songs, 2009's Everybody proved to be Michaelson's most expansive, confident effort to date, and she followed its release with another cross-country fall tour. In 2012, Michaelson returned with her fifth studio album, Human Again with production from David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, Stevie Nicks, The Bangles) and featuring the single, "Ghost." ~ Katherine Fulton & Andrew Leahey, Rovi

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    • Can't Help Falling in Love (Recorded Live At Daytrotter)
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    VH1 News: 'Everybody' Can Relate to Ingrid Michaelson's Fourth Album

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    Billboard Bits: Ingrid Michaelson, Mary Chapin Carpenter
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    Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson will use her music to fight cancer via the Oct. 14 release of the album "Be OK." The collection of previously unre...
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    Ingrid Michaelson releases Be OK tour dates
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    As previously reported, NYC songbird Ingrid Michaelson is set to release a new set of tunes on Oct. 14 via her own Cabin 24 Records. The disc, Be OK, ...
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    .J. @ Wellmont Theatre 14 - New Haven, Conn. @ Toad's Place 16 - Clifton Park, N.Y. @ Northern Lights 17 ... Ingrid Michaelson and Mat Kearney Announc...
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    Ingrid Michaelson Aims for 'Less Ukulele, More Synths' on New Single | Billboard.com
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    stylistic left turns. "I don't want to stay on the old singer/songwriter train for the rest of my life," she explains. "I'd like to sonically branch o...
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    Ingrid Michaelson: All Grown Up With Fourth Album 'Human Again' | Billboard.com
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    Ingrid Michaelson will be the first to admit she's outgrown the cutesy singer/songwriter persona she's cultivated during the past several years. Once ...
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    Watch Sandy Hook Students, Ingrid Michaelson Perform "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
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    On Tuesday, singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson joined 21 children from Newtown, Conn. to perform their benefit single of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"...
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Discography

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  • Human Again (2012)
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    Human Again (2012)
    Mom & Pop Music
  • Everybody (2009)
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    Everybody (2009)
    Vertigo
  • Be OK (2008)
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    Be OK (2008)
    Cabin 24 Records
  • Girls and Boys (2007)
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    Girls and Boys (2007)
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  • Slow the Rain (2005)
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    Slow the Rain (2005)
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