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Artist
Meena
12+ albums
bluesrockfemalealternativefemale vocalists
about
There are several artists with this name: 1. Austrian blues singer Meena Cryle, 2. several Indian actresses and DJs, 3. a shoegaze duo from Manchester, UK, 4. an Arabian pop singer, 5. a Google chatbot. -- 1) Meena Cryle was born 1977 in a small catholic upper austrian village as the third child of a master electrician and his wife. In summer she walked around barefoot, sheltered among cows, meadows, trees and proud of her scratched knees. When she was three Meena had her first encounters with ski, being pushed down the hill. "That was cool", she rememembers chuckling. "Apart from that my people successfully tried to get me into church which was easy because I liked the sound of the organ. My mother taught me a lot during my girlhood. The world is big, she said. And my dad told me to look for a safe place on earth." When Meena learned to speak she immediately was taught how to sing. Grandpa played the zither, mother and sister sang together with her. Good old folk from upper austria, you know. Aside from that Meena and her sister many a time had to volunteer songs at the local restaurant. "I wasn´t to keen about that, but we were given icecream and lemonade. Honestly, that was cool, because singing at the restaurant was the only occassion for stuff like that. So I learned - among other things - musical harmony and polyphonic singing from early on. I wrote my first songs being seven years old. Music was something quite natural in our everyday life and far away from commerciali
