Marissa Nadler

Marissa Rachael Nadler is an American singersongwriter, guitarist and painter based in Boston, Massachusetts. Active since 2000, she has released a number of studio albums. She is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, and released her sixth fulllength studio album July in early February 2014.

Marissa Nadler was born and raised in Massachusetts. She was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a writer who also played guitar. As a teenager, she taught herself to play guitar in a style similar to fingerpicking, playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out syncopated rhythms with the index finger. It was described as having an unorthodox, dusky sound. Also in her teens she began to write songs as a hobby.

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