Margarita Monet (born Margarita Martirosyan; February 15, 1990) is an American singer, pianist, composer, and actress. She is the founder and lead vocalist for the American

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. She is known for her powerful voice and incredible range.

Biography

Margarita was born in

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and moved to

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at an early age. She started music lessons at the age of four and quickly accelerated into a competitive and performance ready pianist. She has competed and won awards in numerous piano competitions. At the age of 11 years old, the whole family moved to Houston, she attended

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, for musical theater. After she moved to New York after getting accepted into New York University's Tisch School Of The Arts, where she majored in Theater at the Meisner studio and minored in Music. Margarita moved to LA in 2010 where she met Dave Bates while working on a project with a local producer. Dave was in search of a singer who had the ability to fill

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's shoes. Soon their music partnership created tremendous results and solidified the band that took up the new name,

References

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