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Growing up in Connecticut and Iowa, Laguna Beach resident Miles
absorbed the music heard on her parents’ records: popular stylists
such as Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
She also fell in love with Hank Williams and the classic country
music played by her uncle. She
had a “weakness for the sad stuff, no
matter what genre,” she says now. These days, the sultry,
deep-voiced Miles tackles everything from Cole Porter chestnuts and
Sting’s “Fragile” to songs never designed to be vocalized, like some
challenging Thelonious Monk material. “I’ll be working on the two
loves of my childhood—jazz and country,” she says. “The moments in
between will be spent making the trouble I’ll write about in my
songs.”
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