Miksweety

Cobham, UK

The beautiful Nordic electronic folk pop of Michaela’s debut EP Ripe Fruit has emerged from years of songwriting, theatre work, and perfecting her sound as a film soundtrack vocalist and piano player. As well as recording two albums with art-pop band Theghostorchestra, (their self-titled debut in 2005 and 2015’s Snowstorm), she was the main vocalist on the feature Slipstream (directed by David Van Eyssen), and once taught Gina McKee to play the piano for BBC drama Mothertime. Born in Antwerp and raised in a rambling house in North Yorkshire, Michaela was the daughter of travelling musicians. Her mother’s stepdad was the writer Bengt Nerman, and his father the journalist Ture Nerman, a famous Swedish socialist who met Lenin in 1917. She went on holiday many times to Blido, ‘a beautiful place of freedom on the Baltic Sea. You’re in touch with nature and the elements, a place with coloured wooden houses and cinnamon buns. That’s all part of me, and the music.’