Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Ellen Michaelson is an American singer and songwriter. Her first album, Slow the Rain, was released in 2005, and she has since released five more albums, Girls and Boys, Be OK, Everybody, Human Again, and her most recent, Lights Out. Her two highestcharting singles are The Way I Am and Girls Chase Boys, at No.and No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.
Michaelson is half Swedish, and was born to artistic parents. Her father, Carl Michaelson, is a composer and her mother, Elizabeth Egbert, was a sculptor. Her mother was of Dutch ancestry. Michaelson took up piano at age four, and trained until seven at Manhattans Third Street Music School, continuing for many more years at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Islands Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. While there she met vocal coach Elizabeth McCullough, who worked with her through high school. She is a graduate of Staten Island Technical High School and Binghamton University, where she received a degree in theater. While at Binghamton University she was a member of the Binghamtonics, a coed a cappella group, as well as the Pappy Parker Players, an improv comedy group, and the theatre repertory company under Sue Peters. Her time at Binghamton is mentioned in the song The Hat. She grew up doing a musical theater group called Kids On Stage. Later in life, she became a director until
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