Ingrid Michaelson - Everybody

Singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson is just one of those artists you cannot help but love. She has a unique voice, writes catchy songs and, as a reviewer put it, "is just a downright sweet person." "This is my big girl record," declares Ingrid Michaelson of Everybody, her 2009 second full-length album, now on vinyl.

On her first album, 2007's critically lauded Girls and Boys, the singer/songwriter infiltrated the mainstream airways with smart love songs such as "The Way I Am," a single that has gone on to sell more than one million copies worldwide. With Everybody, she brings a newfound wisdom and maturity to her music, gleaned from touring the world. "This album is very autobiographical, it's about (a) year-and-a-half of my life and choices that I've made," Michaelson says. "I had other songs that weren't about that and I purposely didn't put them on the album. If it didn't fit the record I kicked it off!"

Born in New York City and raised by her mother, a sculptor, and her father, a classical composer, Ingrid has artistry in her DNA. At four she began taking piano lessons but it wasn't until after she graduated college with a degree in musical theatre and was touring the country in a theater troupe that she began to write the dreamy, pensive-but-poppy songs that would connect with millions. Her music taps into universal themes like self-doubt, betrayal, and of course love, but her spirit is fiercely indie; Ingrid's last studio album, 2007's Girls and Boys, was released on the label she founded, Cabin 24 Records. The record's soaring delicacy caught the ear of TV's Grey's Anatomy's music supervisor and after featuring several of her songs in earlier episodes, Ingrid's heart wrenching ode to emotional paralysis "Keep Breathing" was chosen to soundtrack the show's 2007 season finale, which more than 25 million teary-eyed fans watched.

Side 1

Soldier

Everybody

Are We There Yet

Sort Of

Incredible Love

The Chain

Side 2

Mountain and the Sea

Men of Snow

So Long

Once Was Love

Locked Up

Maybe

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