Born in San Francisco after the summer of love and before the dawn of disco, Miranda Lee Richards is the daughter of Ted and Terre Richards, stars of the underground comics revolution. She got her early professional start in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and that led to her subsequent appearance in the seminal documentary DIG!. Upon moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music, Miranda landed a record deal with Virgin Records, who released her debut album, The Herethereafter. After a pause, her full-length sophomore effort, the heavily licensed Light of X, was released on Nettwerk Records. Her third full-length album began a relationship with the UK-based Invisible Hands Music, which released the critically acclaimed Echoes of the Dreamtime (4 stars MOJO), and also her latest critically acclaimed record, Existential Beast (10/10 Americana UK) eighteen months later. A duet single with US-based Americana artist Charlie Overbey called “Slip Away” came out in October of the following year. Miranda is currently working on collaboration projects with the Lords of Thyme as well as a three-part harmony group with two other singer-songwriters, Maesa and Rosa Pullman who collectively call themselves MIROMA. Both projects are slated for release in 2021 and 2022.

Miranda Lee Richards has collaborated in the studio or performed on stage with Neil Halstead (Mojave Three/Slowdive), The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Harper Simon, Mark Gardener (Ride), GospelbeacH (Beachwood Sparks), The Dandy Warhols, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Hounds Below (Von Bondies), Tim Finn (Crowded House) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bridgette St. John, Susan Vega, David Poe, Tift Merritt, Grant Lee Philips, The Black Angels, Turin Brakes, Juliana Hatfield, Albert Hammond, Nikki Lane, Pete Molinari, The Hanging Stars, Delerium, Violet Vision, The Cordovas, Superdrone, Charlie Overbey, and the Lords of Thyme among many others.

Photographs by Julie Patterson