Muriel Zoe

Muriel Zoe (* 1969 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German singer-songwriter (vocals, guitar) and visual artist.

Zoe, who grew up in India and later in Reinbek , learned to play the guitar at the age of twelve; At the age of 15 she wrote her first songs with English lyrics. In 1988 she began training as a painter and graphic artist at the Free Art School in Nürtingen ; from 1990 she continued her studies at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Hamburg. From 1990 she completed contact studies in popular music at the Hamburg University of Music , which aroused her interest in jazz . In 1992 she founded Zoe's Echos , her first band, followed by Zoe and the Zebras in 1995. So far, she has released four albums under her own name, the first two of which are jazz-oriented; she also sang in the ambient nu jazz band Field . Furthermore, she has had several solo and group exhibitions since 1994; she is also a lecturer in painting and graphic art at the Hamburg Museum of Work .

Discographic notes

• Red and Blue ( ACT , 2003, with Michael Leuschner, Matthias Pogoda, Johannes Huth, Michael Verhovec)
• Neon Blue (ACT, 2005, with Michael Leuschner, Matthias Pogoda, Johannes Huth, Michael Verhovec)
• Flood (Blue Pearls Music, 2009, with Marco Schmedtje, Stephan Gade, Tim Lorenz)
• Birds and Dragons (Blue Pearls Music, 2011)

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Simply shaken the dream house fence (portrait) Die Welt , August 19, 2003
• Art exhibition 2010
• Muriel Zoe at Discogs (English)