Melissa Greener

Melissa Greener brings fearless intimacy to even the biggest stages. Her dagger-sharp lyricism and atmospheric tremolo guitar transport international audiences to deeper places. Greener’s upcoming release, The Fallow Year, “cuts as deep to the raw emotion as the human mind can reasonably tolerate.” – The Fallow Year producer Malcolm Burn

"A glorious, utterly distinctive voice, an accomplished guitarist and an arresting songwriter."
- Acoustic Guitar Magazin (USA)

"Greener paints superb portraits of the human condition" - Maverick Music Magazine

"To be a seeker is a profound gift. It is ones greatest soul quality." - Maryann Russell

Greener has that distinct equine quality of being able to magnify and reflect your senses back at you, forcing you to confront, and surrender to them. A seeker through song, she fixes her gaze inward only to discover the universality in us all; dancing the blurred line between the defects and the divine.

Born an alien of the Motor City's however alluring cacophony, Greener was first enamored with the jazz vocalists that crooned on the late night WDET radio station in Detroit. Beside those standard torch balladeers, other early inspirations were the Laurel Canyon and Greenwich Village songwriter scenes of the 1960's and 70's; then later, Texas poet-writers like David Rodriguez, Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams. Years living in Austin left a permanent mark on Greener - in psyche and in song - so much so that Guy Clark took her under his wing as a co-writer in the last years of his life. A combined love of modernist poetry, bohemia, and the modal D tuning on her sometimes raucous electric tremolo guitar gives Greener her unique approach.

A natural horsewoman from the age of two, Greener has ridden all of her life and identified with the sensitivity, and mystical spirit of the animal. She has trekked mountain ranges in the Alps, Slovakia and Tibet. She's pedaled a bicycle solo across Canada, and lived in a rural village in China. “I once sailed so far into the Mediterranean Sea I couldn't see land, and have seen so many stars in an Egyptian desert I couldn't see the sky.” Her current adventure is a full-time international touring schedule.

Full bio at: http://www.melissagreener.com/bio