Cheyenne Marie Mize is an American folk singer-songwriter from

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, Kentucky.

Biography

Mize's ''Before Lately'' album was released in 2010 on sonaBLAST! Records as an introspective, meditative affair followed by the ''We Don't Need'' EP in 2011 featuring more dynamic moods and experimentation. Her music has been described by ''

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'' as "tough, dreamy, cloudy-sky country and chamber pop," with a "rare voice, sweet without being cloying, and weary without hopelessness."

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described Mize in ''

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'' as "lovely – very much in that

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, smoky, pretty folk realm. It was just beautiful." Mize is also associated with acts

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with their Appalachian Voices tour in support of the Dear Companion album – their collaborative

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release in early 2010. Subsequently, they performed at Austin's

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festival where Cheyenne Marie Mize was chosen as one of NPR's 10 "Discoveries at SXSW 2011". Mize also collaborated with

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in a 10" release '' Among the Gold'' which featured takes on a variety of late 19th century American

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s. Mize is also a member of the folk trio known as Maiden Radio along with

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and Julia Purcell. Their full-length album, ''Wolvering'', was released on June 16, 2015, through OK Recordings.http://www.olkentuck.com/artists/maidenradio https://maidenradio.bandcamp.com/album/wolvering

Discography

Studio albums

*''Before Lately'' (

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), October 2010 * ''Among the Grey'' (

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), June 2013

EPs

*''We Don't Need'', November 2011

Collaborations

*'' Among the Gold'' with

, April 2009 *'' Wolvering'' with Maiden Radio, June 2015

References

External links

* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American folk singers American women singer-songwriters Singers from Louisville, Kentucky Folk musicians from Kentucky Singer-songwriters from Kentucky Women musicians from Kentucky 21st-century American women {{US-singer-stub