Mieka Pauley
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October 22, 1980
Mieka Pauley | |
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 Mieka Pauley at Terminal 5, 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Mary Dominica Pauley October 22, 1980 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genres | Alt rock, Folk, Indie pop |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Voice, guitar |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Website | mieka.com |
Mary Dominica Pauley (born October 22, 1980), known professionally as Mieka Pauley, is an American singer-songwriter.
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.
Career
In 2005, she won the grand prize in the first Starbucks Emerging Artist competition.[1] In 2008, she won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch[2] and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Competition,[3] and she was nominated for a Boston Music Award.[4]
She has appeared on Daytrotter,[5] PRI Mountain Stage,[6] BBC London, and Fox25 Boston.[7] She has gone on tour with Citizen Cope and Edwin McCain.
Personal life
She married Baratunde Thurston in July 2008.[8] Pauley and Thurston divorced in 2010.[citation needed]
In 2010, Pauley started dating singer, songwriter, producer and DJ, Shane Maux, who also co-wrote her song, "Wreck".[9] Pauley and Maux were married in 2016. They have two children together, twins Lilou Dominica Lynn and Luca Rain Orion, born in 2015.[citation needed]
