bio

23-year-old singer/songwriter, meira (Joanna Meira Strogatz) took the internet by surprise when at 12 years old, she got millions of YouTube views for her cover of "Ain't No Sunshine". Her covers began airing on radio stations around the world, and many national and international magazines, blogs and TV shows featured or reviewed her work. At 14, she opened for national headliner Todd Rundgren at the Syracuse Jazz Festival, and her arrangement and recording of "Work Song" was included in the British Library Sound Archives. 

 

Since her early years, meira has grown — in both skill and in height — and is now creating her own sound based on personal experiences. Her music is always voice-first, with soulful vocals and raw emotion. Using direct lyricism, meira aims to sing the words that people would be otherwise afraid to speak. In what she calls a “sonic diary entry”, her songs contain a striking mix of brutally honest thoughts and conversational, even sometimes confessional, words from the heart.