Dessa is a member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
19 Facts About Dessa
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Dessa went to Southwest High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, graduating from the IB Diploma Programme in 1999.
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Since 2005, Dessa has toured with and appeared on all Doomtree albums, as well as on the other members' solo albums.
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Dessa was the CEO of Doomtree; however, she relinquished that post to her label mate, Lazerbeak, to focus on her own career.
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In 2011, Dessa released Castor, the Twin, a remix album featuring new arrangements of songs released on previous projects, primarily A Badly Broken Code.
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In 2013, Dessa released her second full-length album Parts of Speech that made its debut in Billboard's Top 200.
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On January 15,2021, Dessa released "Rome," the first title in her IDES Series.
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At the fourth annual Doomtree Blowout in 2008, and via Doomtree Press, Dessa released Spiral Bound a seventy-page collection of fiction and poetry.
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Dessa's work has been published in periodicals, including a 2009 poem in Ars Medica and a 2017 article about visiting New Orleans as a tourist in The New York Times Magazine.
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Dessa is a founding member of The Boy Sopranos, an almost all-female a cappella group, with frequent collaborators Jessy Greene, Aby Wolf and others.
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Dessa taught at the Institute of Production and recording and the McNally Smith College of Music.
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Dessa was a member of the indie super-group Gayngs founded by Ryan Olson, in 2010, along with 22 other musicians including Justin Vernon.
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On March 2,2012, Dessa presented "Mic Lines: Art, Ethics, and their Contested Connections" at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of the three-day Nobel Peace Prize Forum.
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Dessa was the host of Twin Cities Public Television's The Lowertown Line, a live music series, from 2012 to 2014.
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Dessa was a contributing artist on the 2015 Saint Paul-based "Plume Project", a public art installment in which images and colors were projected onto steam rising from a smokestack in downtown Saint Paul and music and spoken-word pieces could be accessed by calling a phone number.
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Dessa had a flavor of ice cream named after her on July 27,2016, by Izzy's Ice Cream, "Dessa's Existential Crunch".
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Dessa has been involved with the popular fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale as both a contributing writer and musical guest.
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Dessa followed that set of performances with another two sold-out performances in October 2018, this time premiering new material from her album Chime.
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Dessa sang the National Anthem at the Minnesota Twins home opener on April 5,2018.