Artist description Piano/keyboard-based original super-melodic songs with sweet& sultry female vocals. Wry words sung over grooves that range from poignantly wistful to infectiously catchy.

Music Style Alternative Piano-based Bluesy Singer/Songwriter Pop-Rock(AAA)

Musical Influences Mozart, Jarret Washinton, boogie-woogie,Led Zeppelin, J.P. Donleavy, Kate Bush, Brahms,Terry Adams,the Who, Cat Stevens, sushi, the Wizard of Oz and Rickie Lee Jones

Similar Artists If you could blend together Suzanne Vega, the Cookie-Monster,Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Bilbo Baggins and Pete Townshend (if he were a piano-playing woman from the south) then you'd get True Margrit

Artist History True Margrit, originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, has been a mainstay on the San Francisco scene since 1990. Her new album, "Deceptively True", is both a celebration of the True Margrit band of the last nine years, and a look forward to her newsolo career.

Group Members Players on Margrit's album (and past members of her band!) include Chris Martin (guitar), Gary Hobish (bass), Robert Geller (bass & guitar), Eban Schletter (drums), Sally Lieber (guitar and vocals), Shannon Mehaffey, and others.

Instruments Piano, synth, vocals, guitar

Albums Deceptively True (BoboTunes)

Press Reviews "Margrit is a genius in the vein of Pete Townshend"(San Francisco Spectrum, Joe Cote)... "Immediately likeable..." (Wayne Bledsoe,Knoxville News Sentinal)... "Bridges the gap between what you hear on the radio and what sticks in your head." (Dmitri Ragano, San Francisco Bay Guardian)... "One dame who can really belt out a numbah..." (Knoxville News Sentinal, Wayne Bledsoe)... "More enjoyable than "Hockey Star Nurse" (A Signet Nurse Book, 1972)... "Some voices hide in corners waiting to be noticed... otheres stomp center-stage and refuse to budge..True Margrit lands splat in the latter category"(Neva Chonin, San Francisco Bay Guardian)... "True Margrit has to be one of the best keyboardists in town"(David Womack, Haight-Ashbury Free Press,)... "True Margrit just may be a true star."(Jay Skierski, Haight-Ashbury Free Press,)... "If you see only one band this year, you've got to get out more often!"

Additional Info Sometimes the truth feels good! Only love can curl your hair...

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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