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Michelle Anthony is a Kansas City native, Milwaukee transplant and current resident of Austin, Texas. Michelle's music has been featured in the independent film Black Cloud (Rick Schroder, Eddie Spears, Tim McGraw) as well in releases of the television series "The Wonderfalls" and "Roswell." Her songs have been heard in the MTV shows "Pimp My Ride", "Making the Band", and "Operation 17." She has performed on bills with Shelby Lynne, k.d. lang, Ben Folds, Mindy Smith, Amy Rigby, Robbie Fulks, The Silos, Junior Brown, Bob Schneider and Sophie B. Hawkins.
Michelle's first album, Stand Fall Repeat released in 2004, was recorded with a band of local veteran punk-country and rock musicians at Jay Bennett's (ex-Wilco) studio in Chicago. F5 (Wichita) summarized the album's feel and writes, "Had Liz Phair gone to Los Angeles circa 1972 to make a record with Gram Parsons and the members of Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, this might have been the result." "Stand Fall Repeat" received acclaim from critics in the US and UK, including four stars from All Music Guide, and praise from the alt.country magazine, No Depression, in a "Town and Country" feature.
Michelle performed on the famed Mountain Stage (West Virginia) in October 2004, opening for k.d. Lang and Bruce Cockburn. She has performed on Chicago's WGN-TV Superstation's Morning Show, 2005 SXSW (Austin, TX) showcase, and the world's largest outdoor music festival, Summerfest (Milwaukee, WI).
"Frozenstarpalace," produced by Barry Goldberg (Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac) was released in 2006. The album was well-received by critics and fans: "An artist who can claim brilliance as part of her vocabulary," - Entertainment News and Views (Miami) and, "She has the unaffected delivery of her Midwestern heritage and the ability, reminiscent of Sarah McLachlan, to quietly insinuate herself into the spaces between conscious thoughts." -No Depression Magazine.
She is an active supporter of the Voices and Faces project and has contributed the song "White Lies" as a feature download for the organization's website.
Her live performances have been noteworthy critic's pick for dozens of publications, including the Austin Chronicle, Shepherd Express, Chicago Reader, Dallas Observer, The Pitch, Chicago Reader, the Onion, LA Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
She is currently working on a solo piano effort for Media Creature Publishing, writing songs for her third album and celebrating motherhood.
