Kimya Dawson
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Kimya Dawson became well known as the female counterpart to Adam Green in the band The Moldy Peaches. Since the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus in 2004 Dawson has released a string of lo-fi homemade albums and toured widely in North America and Europe.
Dawson recently finished work on Alphabutt, a new album of children’s music she hopes to release in August 2008.
Soundtrack work
In 2008 Dawson contributed the song “Anthrax” - about 9-11 - to the soundtrack of the Body of War documentary.
A number of Dawson’s songs are included on the Juno soundtrack, released in December 2007. Composer Mateo Messina also based the film’s score on Dawson’s music.
The soundtrack album, after two weeks topping Billboard’s Digital Albums chart, reached #8 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of release. In its first full week of physical release the album sold 68,000 copies, reaching #3 on the Soundscan album chart. Dawson has two new songs on a follow-up album Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs due April 8 via iTunes.
Dawson is well-connected with many other musicians, appearing in songs by Ben Kweller, They Might Be Giants, The Mountain Goats, John Wayne Shot Me and The Terrordactyls. The Third Eye Blind track entitled Self-Righteous on their album, Out of the Vein features a duet with Dawson and Third Eye Blind’s lead singer Stephan Jenkins. Regina Spektor collaborated with Dawson on the song ‘Fire’ on the Hidden Vagenda album. Kimya Dawson also collaborated with fellow antifolk Jeffrey Lewis.
Personal life
A sometime resident of Bedford Hills, New York, Dawson moved in December 2005 — with her mother, father, brother (Akida Junglefoot Dawson), and nephew — to Seattle, Washington.
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