Mariya Ocher

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Mary Ocher (2017)

Mariya Ocher (born November 10, 1986 in Moscow , USSR as Mariya Ocheretianskaya , Russian Мария Очеретянская ) better known under her pseudonym Mary Ocher is an Israeli of Russian descent who is known as a musician, poet, director and artist ("progressive, cosmopolitan" ) lives in Berlin .

Life

Mariya Ocher was born on November 10, 1986 in Moscow as Mariya Ocheretianskaya, the only child of a puppeteer and an unemployed engineer. Before her fifth birthday in 1991, the family first moved to a kibbutz in the Negev region and a short time later to Tel Aviv , where Mariya attended a Jewish school and had to change her first name to Miriam . As a teenager, she focused on art and film in school until she dropped out of school at the beginning of 12th grade. At the age of 18 she changed her last name to Ocher . In October 2007, Ocher moved from Tel Aviv to Berlin.

Career

Mary Ocher began writing lyrics at the age of eleven and recorded her first song at the age of 14.

Nina Hagen , Buffy Sainte-Marie and Lydia Lunch are important influences on her musical work .

In December 2006, Ocher founded the band Mary and The Baby Cheeses , with which they moved to Berlin at the end of 2007 and produced a total of five publications (including Analog Music For A Digital Generation ) on their own.

On March 11, 2011, her first solo studio album, War Songs, was released on the Haute Areal label in Germany, Austria, Spain and Switzerland. The first single from the album On The Street of Hard Labor was released two weeks earlier on February 25, 2011. In the same year, Ocher was discovered by producer King Khan in a karaoke bar and invited to his Moon Studios .

In October 2012, Ocher accompanied the author Sibylle Berg together with the actors Katja Riemann and Matthias Brandt on their reading tour for the book Thank you for life . With King Khan as producer, Ocher's second studio album, Eden, was released on June 14, 2013, this time on the Hamburg label Buback.

Ocher appeared in an episode of the arte series Through the Night with ... , in which she explored Hamburg together with the porn actress Sasha Gray . The episode aired in early December 2013.

In November 2013 Mary Ocher was on tour with Hans Unstern .

Discography

Regular albums

  • War Songs (2011; Haute Areal)
  • Eden (2013; Buback)
  • The Fictional Biography of Mary Ocher - The home recordings (2006-2015) (2015)
  • Mary Ocher + Your Government (2016; sound bath)
  • The West Against The People (2017; sound bath)

Compilation contributions

  • The Sound Of War on Riot Grrrl Berlin: This is what Feminism sounds like

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  1. ↑ Ulrich Gutmair: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US. MARY OCHER reveals herself to be an avowed eccentric. In: Spex, May 27, 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  2. ↑ Lea Penn: Putting some punch into the protest song. In: Haaretz, May 26, 2011
  3. ↑ This is what Feminism sounds like website

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personal data
SURNAME Ocher, Mariya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ocheretianskaya, Mariya; Очеретянская, Мария (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli musician, poet, director and artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow