Brooklyn Based Singer-Songwriter Miranda Joan Shares Her New Single “Kiss a Stranger”
Miranda Joan is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and musician. Born in Montréal, Miranda spent her formative years growing up on the north shore of Vancouver, filling diaries with emotions and experiences; creating a safe place to land for both her heart and her imagination that would go on to form the basis of her song writing. Her influences range from Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, and Carole King to Anderson Paak., Little Dragon and Robyn, drawing on both the classic and the contemporary. Miranda’s personal experiences and the artistic and spiritual energies of the places she has called home flow through intricate song writing and playful production to form a unique blend of Soul-Pop.
With the fluidity of growing up along the Pacific Ocean in Vancouver and the joy-de-vivre and creativity that Montréal exudes radiating through her music, Miranda has always sustained strong roots in Canada. A shy child, her first experiences of music and performing came from high school drama and musical theatre. Leaning into Soul, R&B and Jazz sounds, she found a natural home for her voice. Miranda began to shape her sound using her lifetime of journals and influence from the singer-songwriters of all genres that had fed into her writing process throughout her life. She moved to New York to study Jazz and opened her inquisitive sound and creative style to a host of artists and producers in her musical surroundings, as well as the grittiness and intensity of the city.
Miranda has just released her new single "Kiss A Stranger". She confides on the meaning of the track, "It was almost a year into lockdown, I’d left New York, moved back to Vancouver, Canada, my career was indefinitely on pause, I was single and living in a studio above the garage at my mother’s house. After twelve years, I was back home, in the woods and isolated. The undercurrent of my existential crisis was also a breakup. And so, as I processed all the above, I spent every night alone in the studio above the garage and wrote songs. What I wanted was to reach out and touch somebody. Anybody. I yearned for connection; for physical touch, and found a deeper appreciation for the simple joy and freedom of meeting someone new, someone outside “the pod”; of connecting with a stranger."
Miranda has found success sharing the stage with high profile artists including Andy Grammar, Lorde, Shawn Mendes and she is set to do a festival tour with The Killers. She has received acclaim from the likes of Consequence, NPR, BBC reband LADYGUNN to name a few. "Kiss A Stranger" is off of her upcoming album “Overstimulated” set for release November 10th.
Listen to “Kiss A Stranger” on: Apple Music