meredith heller

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"A singer/songwriter with a depth and a weight that is attempted but not achieved often. Meredith delivers honest lyrics wrapped in simple melodies that weave and curve around subliminal hooks and beautiful lucid turnarounds. It is not always about overproduction, too many chords and the busy sounds. Meredith represents a simplicity that shines through. This is why Meredith Heller is The PME Diamond in The Rough for this week.” Meredith Heller sings from her soul. While her musical roots stem primarily in folk, this Siren has her own unique style. Her voice moves with an ease, strength, and emotion that reveal the depth and complexity of her character. Weaving haunting and intricate melodies with the lucid imagery of a sensually perceptive poet, you will not only hear her music; you will feel it.The first time I met the muse I was about 9. She hunkered down beside me and whispered into my left ear my first line of melody and lyric. Since then I’ve spent most of my life learning to put myself in a space where I could hear her voice. Sometimes she gets fed up with me and doesn’t visit for a couple of years but then there are those incandescent times when she moves in and we have a love fest that lasts a few months.In January of 2006 I had a creative renaissance and wrote 13 new songs, and I started performing again after years of stage fright. Song writing is a mystical process: I like to say that it isn’t so much that we write a song but that a song writes us. And I am always humbled, delighted and grateful.Oh, details? O.k. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a mime; I wanted to be in the circus. I studied theater and modern dance. I was born in Brooklyn, New York but did most of my growing along the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. I have planted trees, painted faces, solo-backpacked thru every national park in the Western U.S.; I have slept in graveyards and grape vineyards all over Europe, taught poetry writing in the schools in Boulder for 5 years, taken counsel from the redwoods and written love songs to the sea. I have lived in Manhattan, London, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Boulder Colorado, Big Sur, and hidden hollows in the Blue Ridge. And in case you think I was just running around like a wild woman, I also worked my ass off for a dual Master's degree in writing and experiential education.For many years I lived as a gypsy: passionately exploring and seeking to understand myself, others, and the world. Mine has been a life infused, inspired, weathered, and wizened by love, loss and every other unpredictable force in the universe. As of 2003 I have made my home in Northern California and I’m not leaving. I’m digging deep roots, stretching graceful branches, and exploding in luminous blooms. And ok, i lied; i just moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. I live on a platform on the edge of a pali overlooking Kealakekua Bay. I swim with dolphins everyday. I am home. Peace & Blessings to you!