Mieka Pauley


Mary Dominica Pauley, known professionally as Mieka Pauley, is an American singer-songwriter.
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Early life and education

Pauley was born in Boston and raised in Ohio, Kentucky, South Florida, and Colorado, where she attended Cherry Creek High School. She returned to Boston to attend Harvard University, where she entered the local music scene and began performing at coffeehouses and open-mic nights.

Career

In 2005, she won the grand prize in the first Starbucks Emerging Artist competition. In 2008, she won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Competition, and she was nominated for a Boston Music Award.
She has appeared on Daytrotter, PRI Mountain Stage, BBC London, and Fox25 Boston. She has gone on tour with Citizen Cope and Edwin McCain.

Personal life

She married Baratunde Thurston in July 2008. Pauley and Thurston divorced in 2010.
In 2010, Pauley started dating singer, songwriter, producer and DJ, Shane Maux, who also co-wrote her song, "Wreck". Pauley and Maux were married in 2016. They have two children together, twins Lilou Dominica Lynn and Luca Rain Orion, born in 2015.

Discography