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Marika Straw

singer-songwriter on piano & voice

Marika Straw’s music is like the sacredness of light filtering softly through stained glass onto velvet, or entering into your own private meditation. Warm, welcoming, inviting. Vulnerable, intimate, soulful. Dynamic and healing, their music draws listeners through questions into affirmations. Sing along or get lost in Marika's gorgeous voice and lush rhythms, and feel free like water.

Stylistically indie pop/indie folk, Marika's classical piano training shows in their songs' intricacy, power and presence; their jazz background in a subtle stylistic flair. Strong dashes of Regina Spektor and Sara Bareilles pair with smatterings of Fiona Apple, Vanessa Carlton, Greta Morgan, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, and CAKE. Marika has also been compared to Ingrid Michaelson, Cat Power, and Tori Amos.

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    Dear Heart (Range Rider Nov '23) 4:27
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    Away (Range Rider Nov '23) 4:29
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    I Wrote You A Song (2018) 4:59
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    Pain Called My Name (Range Rider Nov '23) 4:58
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    What If (2018) 3:55
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    Song For My Grief (Range Rider Nov '23) 4:38
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“Marika's fingers flow effortlessly with the piano while their vocals invite you to soar along to the peaks and to dive to the valleys of exploration in the wondrous climb of their music. Each song is a practice in delight, a kind of deeply felt delight, one that pulls from wisdom and the supplication to life.” - Mel Davis, Fan

Press photos

Range Rider, Nov '23
Photo by Roger Averbeck

Top of Mt. Howard Tram
Summer '24

Range Rider, Nov '23
Photo by Roger Averbeck
“Their music is full of movement, pauses, emotion, and depth that bring stories of a wild and gentle heart to light, making for an entrancing storytelling night. Marika's voice will captivate you and energize your soul in a vibrant bath of rich tonality, with a timbre that will lull you into a reverie.” - Rikki Jo Hickey

— EO Alive TV Arts Beat

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