New Music Minute featuring Ingrid Michaelson & Nicole Atkins

Staten Island native Ingrid Michaelson was born into a house of all things artistic. Following in the eclectic footsteps of her mother, a sculptor, and her father, a classical composer, Ingrid began piano lessons at only four years old. Her songwriting career began after college while touring the country in a national theater troupe and spending all her free time composing the songs that would eventually make it onto her current record, Girls and Boys.

An entrepreneur as well as a talented musician, Ingrid released Girls and Boys on her own label. Three months after the CD release, Ingrid won a national songwriting award. In November 2006, an unexpected phone call catapulted her career forward. The music supervisor from Grey's Anatomy wanted to use the song "Breakable" in an upcoming episode. Following the exposure on Grey's Anatomy, Ingrid's career as an independent artist immediately hit the fast track and she began to achieve milestones previously unheard of for an artist not signed to a major label.


NICOLE ATKINS

The shores of New Jersey are littered with small towns whose better days are far in the past. They're towns that have been written about, and sung over; towns that have been mythologized and idealized; and they are the towns that 28-year-old musician Nicole Atkins--a native of Neptune City, located a stones throw from fabled Asbury Park was born and raised. They can be places steeped in their own history, buried under the sense of their own pasts. Places of hey-days and what-once-was. And it's that sense of something lost and of what perhaps should have been, and what might be, that permeates Atkins's debut, Neptune City.

The characters in her tunes seem to live in an idealized past. "This record is the history of my town; it's the history of my family and friend in this town," she explains. "From the time I was a kid I started collecting these sad little tragically beautiful personal stories from the people in my life, and my own as well. That sense of history really appeals to me as an artist."
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[RdtheLiterature]

ingrid's got balls to make her own record label...i'm impressed

[sydneyportela]

I love her voice. She's just so chill and real. I love it.

[kasimotinka123]

@kasimotinka123

i ment ingrid michaelson, not nicole atkins, but she seems pretty good too.

[kasimotinka123]

i would love to see and of course hear her live :)

[rhani189]

lOvE ingrid.. not so much nicole atkins, she sounds.. ermm :/

[zerovirus01]

all ingrid michaelson fans. well, she's okay, but i LOOVE nicole atkins.

[allen770]

I almost always forget just how much i LOVE Ms. Michaelson . . .

[metallaro5]

whose is the song at the beginning of this vid?

[dangerousdan21]

i really like this

[icesk8r4eva97]

she went to 61? i go there now!!!!!!!!!!