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Marie is a multi-faceted artist and speaker who weaves music, humor, and storytelling to convey God\u2019s love for us and our opportunity to share that love with others.<\/p>\n
At seventeen Marie was signed by Curb Records. During her Curb years, she recorded the #1 Christian song, \u201cYou\u2019re Not Alone\u201d and had songs featured in movies and television shows. After much thought and prayer, she left Curb Records to create \u201cLittle Dreams,\u201d her first independent album. The album\u2019s title track video premiered on Billboard and its most popular single, \u201cImaginary Friend,\u201d was streamed over 1 million times on iTunes.<\/p>\n
As a live performer, Marie opened for the Backstreet Boys, The Wallflowers, toured with Five for Fighting, and headlined shows in listening rooms across the country. Marie shared the main stage with Mark Wahlberg, Andrea Bocelli, and Aretha Franklin to perform for Pope Francis and a live audience of 750,000.<\/p>\n
Marie is currently working on her second independent release, “The Way of Love.”<\/p>\n
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Miller also began writing songs when she was about 12 years old. \u201cThe first one I started performing was an original melody and lyrics based on a poem I\u2019d read in Lord of the Rings,\u201d she says, with a grin. \u201cI was really into American music at the time \u2014 the kind of music you\u2019d hear in a Ken Burns documentary, the people\u2019s music, the storytelling of bluegrass and Irish music. I was attracted initially to the New Grass artists, like Nickel Creek and Alison Krauss and mainly Chris Thile. She pauses and then laughs, a little embarrassed. \u201cI was actually 100 percent certain when I was 14 that Chris Thile and I were going to get married someday.\u201d Miller then found herself diving into the lyrics and melodies from the likes of The Eagles to Stevie Wonder to modern hitmaker Sara Bareilles. This wide range of influences impacted her music making when she signed with Curb Records in Nashville at the age of 16 where she fulfilled her dream to write songs. \u201cI began my life as a traveling musician then,\u201d she says. \u201cI love performing, but it was so uncomfortable to be 16 or 17 and have everybody telling me what to do. I remember one time five people criticized what I was wearing. When you\u2019re 17 years old you\u2019re uncomfortable with yourself already, so to have a bunch of old people talk to you about your clothes, it was just really weird.\u201d<\/p>\n
Discouraged, Miller returned to Virginia. She took time off from music, went to college for a while, but kept practicing and writing. With a new confidence, she eventually went back to Nashville. Before long she had made her mark in music. And from there, we come to this pivotal moment in her story.<\/p>\n
Working with producers Eric Rosse (Sara Bareillis, Tory Amos) and Chad Copelin, Miller moved decisively into a new creative milieu with Letterbox. Begin with the title. \u201cIt\u2019s from the Beatles\u2019 song \u2018Across the Universe,\u2019\u201d she points out, and then sings the John Lennon lyric: \u201cThoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why do these words speak to her? \u201cI still write letters to my friends and to my grandparents and to my boyfriends … when I have them,\u201d she says, smiling. \u201cI\u2019ve discovered that sometimes, when you want to say something, you just can\u2019t. It\u2019s too awkward. So Letterbox is about how I love to write letters but it\u2019s also radically relational, about friendships, parents, a child or romance. It\u2019s about how we affect each other as people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller describes the songs on Letterbox as \u201calmost literal letters to people in my life. \u2018Glitter Gold,\u2019 \u2018Boardwalk\u2019 and \u2018Angeline\u2019 are like letters you leave on someone\u2019s doorstep \u2014 teenage, broken-heart messages. \u2018More\u2019 is a letter that you never sent. \u2019Stones You Throw\u2019 is about how the world feels ripples from every little thing we say or do, whether we like it or not. We live constantly in the ripples of other people\u2019s actions, whether they\u2019re from love or hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s exultant first single, \u201cThis Side of Paradise,\u201d which Miller describes as \u201chopeful and daring\u201d … the promise to wait, in the language of many a folk song, for \u201cthe day that I see my own true love again\u201d on \u201cLonely Ends\u201d … compelling imagery, vocals that whisper and soar, from a lover \u201cLost at Sea\u201d … Every moment on Letterbox rings true and lingers afterwards, like a memory or a passage from a favorite book.<\/p>\n
This is the true Marie Miller, breathing in all that life has to offer and crafting it with her own sense of hope, wonder and enchantment.<\/p>\n
And, in case you\u2019re wondering, \u201cNow, if people tell me what to wear or what to say, I just totally ignore them.\u201d<\/p>\n
She laughs out loud. It feels good to be free. It feels good to share that freedom through music. With Letterbox, we savor it all, as if delivered to us alone, from a friend not so far away. aboutMarie Miller is a folk\/pop singer\/songwriter and recording artist living in Nashville, TN. Marie is a multi-faceted artist and speaker who weaves music, humor, and storytelling to convey God\u2019s love for us and our opportunity to share that love with others. At seventeen Marie was signed by Curb Records. During her Curb years, she recorded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariemillermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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