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MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A

save your love for the stage

About Me


singer songwriter performer
artist
(making work about: identity, nostalgia and visually representing a phenomenological understanding of 'zeitgeist' )
fashion illustration model for central saint martins, artists model for the camden arts centre.
STARS AND WALLFLOWERS (current project)
i am working on my new music project "stars and wallflowers" - its just me and my laptop now, although there will be a collaboration with 'joe and will ask'.
AND...
songs on the current playlist were recorded early last year at a live gig at favela chic in london and indicative of a previous incarnation.
previous performancesfor charles atlas ('instant fame' @ vilma gold), whitechapel gallery, favela chic paris & london, george & dragon, catch 22, bistrotheque, vibe bar, circus bar (soho), for girlcore 'diva' and 'musical' nights and 'lookout'.
"the fabulous vanessa mazza" time out, london, 2007
THANK YOU TO...
stephen jones - for all of your divine creations.
neil gilks (background) and caroline hill (inset) for their illustrations
pos from de la soul for dropping a microphone into a crowd of thousands - it landed at my feet - i picked it up and realised, as i sang the ascending vocal hook for 'me, myself and i' what i wanted to do from that point on...
various photographers: cassia tabatini myspace.com/cassiatabatini, davey miller daveymiller.co.uk, maria elisa gomez www.flicker.com/photos/brixtonia, kosmo [email protected], party pix alistair of dirtydirtydancing.com
UK VOCAL TRAINING - anita wardell www.anitawardell.com
shout out to dj able for being my first london collaborator and mister michael d for all his scratches and beats.
BOOKINGS: MODELING OR PERFORMANCE [email protected]
dead prez - hip hop
lauryn hill - i find it hard to say (rebel) mtv unplugged
a short film by guy bourdin
aria from 'diva' wilhelmenia wiggins fernandez
these days - nico
janis ian - at seventeen

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/6/2006
Band Members: Image from the TIMES - Sunday Style Magazine (2007)...for article refer to link
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fash ion/article2436942.ece
Influences: the everyday, the rarified, love, life, beauty and death.
and...
all kinds of music but certain female singers and songwriters:
etta james, nina simone, nico, sarah vaughan, jocelyn brown, blondie, mina mazzini, donna summer, mary margaret o'hara, shara nelson, bjork, marion williams.
Sounds Like: im trying to use my past to steal your future
sub-electro, neo-noir, low rent glamour, high end filth, underproduced, electro-boogaloo, urban folk, acoustic hippity hop, glitchy gospel, art school vs old school, juicy jazz, suped up soul, broken down blues...and shabby showtunes.

the genius of nina simone - live montreux jazz festival, performing 'feelings'

opening scene from style wars, new york, 1983

blondie - rapture

donna summer - last dance (1978 - live)

carole king - so far away

marion williams - i'm going to live the life i sing about

My Blog

welcome back - i missed you

OK - from the top (2,3,4)"with our thoughts we make the world" Gautama Buddhablack cab rides after midnight with the window down, champagne, livers and mash, my cream shoes, adoption of a positive out...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:17:00 PST

im enjoying

singing again, that first pint after singing, destruction reinvention elevation, reconnection to what you thought you wanted to leave only made possible by connection to new places, new people and new...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

homesick

something to carry me forward: change is my continuum, choices are not intentions but courses of action and inaction, patterns and abstractions, evolution within a moment, acceleration, consideration...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:48:00 PST

trying to...

not play dead, get my thoughts and deeds to match up, rehearse/rehearse/rehearse, get a green card, finish recording, sit in my favourite church more, get to berlin, get back to paris, book all my app...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:59:00 PST

spring

full to bursting, vintage cotton dresses with - floral prints, abstract prints, stripes, spots and embroidery, green apples, lolling about on park benches, sitting on the stoop, lying on the grass, p...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:01:00 PST

winter - part two

pinot noir, waiting for my phalaenopsis orchids to bud, lemon cake and coffee with one friend at a time, dancing like an extra from fame, getting packages wrapped in brown paper from amazon/ebay, read...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST

winter

still daydreaming, staying in, b pencils, livers with brandy and bacon, warhol's writings, peace, mamma anderson, louise bourgeois, my bathrobe, shalimar, flea markets, french martinis, rehearsal, fai...
Posted by MI$$ VANE$$A MA££A on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:57:00 PST