30 Facts About Mirah

Mirah has collaborated with artists such as Phil Elvrum of The Microphones, Tune-Yards, Susie Ibarra, Jherek Bischoff and Thao Nguyen.

On July 31,2020, Mirah released a 20 Year Anniversary Reissue of her germinal album, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This via Double Double Whammy.

Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn was born on September 17,1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children.

Mirah's mother is a painter and massage therapist and together with her father ran a small natural foods bakery throughout Mirah's childhood and adolescence.

Mirah's father worked delivering Rolling Stone magazine for several years in the late 1970s.

Mirah's father was an avid music lover with a large record collection and Mirah developed an early interest in music.

Mirah's family moved a number of times between 1974 and 1979, including a stint on a hippie commune near Spencer, West Virginia and several years in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse adjacent to the farm owned by her extended family.

Mirah took part in a number of anti-nuclear walks during her middle school and high school years, including a 6-week stretch of the 9-month cross country Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in 1986 when she was 12.

Mirah taught herself guitar and wrote her first song as an assignment for class.

Mirah was a member of the short-lived all-female Olympia band The Drivers with Molly Burgdorf and Sarah Reed.

Mirah was briefly the drummer for The Chosen, a Jewish heavy metal duo.

Mirah was involved with a number of "secret cafes" in Olympia, including The Red Horse Cafe which she and her roommate Ariana Jacob ran out of their one bedroom apartment.

Mirah was involved with several large scale theatrical productions including The Transfused, a 2000 rock opera written by Nomy Lamm and The Need.

Mirah later toured extensively with The Microphones across the US and Canada.

Small Sale EP is a 2001 album by Mirah released on Modern Radio Records.

Mirah released a music video for the C'mon Miracle single "Don't Die in Me," which was created by Tara Jane O'Neil and Kristina Davies and features animated drawings and paintings by O'Neil.

Mirah's music is featured in the 2006 documentary, Young, Jewish, and Left.

Mirah played at the Sasquatch Festival in the summer of 2007.

The Old Days Feeling is a collection of out-of-print, reissued, and unreleased songs by Mirah, featuring collaborative work by Phil Elvrum and Calvin Johnson of K Records.

Mirah performed at Ladyfest in Seattle, Philadelphia, London, and Amsterdam, as well as at several Yoyo A Go Go festivals.

Mirah worked with Grammy-nominated producer Tucker Martine on 4 of the tracks.

Mirah began living part-time in Brooklyn in October 2012, moving there full-time in the fall of 2013.

Mirah co-wrote a song called "The Nest" which appeared on Jherek Bischoff's 2012 album Composed, and she has performed that song and others with various ensembles in Seattle and New York City, including The Wordless Music Orchestra and Contemporaneous.

Mirah wrote a piece collaboratively with percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra, which they debuted at the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival.

On September 7,2018, Mirah released her 2nd full-length album on her imprint label Absolute Magnitude Recordings, "Understanding".

Mirah returned to New York and fleshed out the rest of the album with frequent collaborators Greg Saunier and Eli Crews.

On July 31,2020, Mirah released a deluxe reissue version of her seminal LP, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This, via Double Double Whammy.

Mirah primarily plays guitar and has guest musicians accompany her live and on records.

Mirah's ever-evolving live band has included friends and artists such as Bryce Kasson, Tara Jane O'Neil, Rachel Blumberg, Melanie Valera, Alex Guy, Andrew Maguire, Lisa Schonberg, Lori Goldston, Emily Kingan, Christopher Doulgeris, Maia MacDonald and many others.

Mirah has been out as queer throughout her professional career.