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Micah Barnes

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Hey Y'all. I started playing piano in a rock 'n roll band with my best pal Howard Pope in Toronto when I was 13, playing Iggy Pop and David Bowie tunes,(of course!). But I "quit the band" to learn jazz and blues once I discovered Billie Holiday's vortex of beauty and pain. Right after high school my brother Daniel and I formed a sorta Punk-Cabaret act that crossed over onto Toronto's Queen Street Indie scene playing with folks like Jane Siberry etc.

Later on, (1989), I joined the Pop Acapella group "The Nylons" to make records and tour the world...(working with favorite soul stars like Roberta Flack and Gladys Knight), which made me happy for a while.

When I left the group and landed on Venice beach I started developing the "Rock meets Electronica" sound of my first solo C.D. "Loudboy Radio" inspired by L.A.'s spoken word and performance scene, (see MICAHBARNES.COM ).

That dark and nasty club-oriented sound led to my work with Thunderpuss on "Welcome To My Head", (which suprised us all by climbing to NO. 1 on the Billboard club chart as an unsigned record!).

After a few years of creating evening-length word and music works over at Highways Performance Theatre I started to boil the material back down to the current crop of piano and voice songs I am performing and recording these days. The new C.D. "Micah Barnes" has a Cabaret-Noir vibe and is produced by my former Loudboy band-mate Clint Yeager (of Speedqueen) and mixed by the legendary Geza X.
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Member Since: 5/25/2006
Band Website: micahbarnes.com
Influences: Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Roxy Music and Kurt Weil
Sounds Like: Rufus Wainright, Nick Cave.
"Nicely bridging the gap between Cole Porter and Elvis Costello" - The Globe and Mail
Record Label: Loudboy
Type of Label: None

My Blog

CD LAUNCH AT HUGH'S ROOM

HEY Y'ALL I just can not thank the friends and family and fans that came out and gave me literally the best gig of my entire career at Toronto's Hugh's Room last month. It was a terrific launch for th...
Posted by Micah Barnes on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:37:00 PST