Mariam The Believer

Eat Your Own Ears present Mariam The Believer at SJQ. Mariam Wallentin is an artist with a big heart, as thoughtful as she is musically bold. An Alice Coltrane for our time. Soulfulness meets music that makes us feel and think. With musical roots partly in improvisation and new music, partly in pop and soul, Wallentin’s career has crossed a number of multifaceted territories; Wallentin is one half of the vocal-and-drum duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, who has over time made an impact in the world of musicians, focusing on honest and raw compositions structured around vocal melodies and rhythm patterns. The duo have collaborated with and supported artists like St Vincent, Joanna Newsom, Mica Levi and Caribou. Wallentin has also worked with renowned musicians such as Feist, Damien Rice, Hildur Gudnadottir, Lykke Li, and saxophone-player Mats Gustafsson to name a few. She has won the Swedish Manifest prize, the Jazzkatten prize, has been nominated for the Nordic Music Prize and several times for a Swedish Grammys. With her uncompromising approach to music, Wallentin also started her solo-project Mariam The Believer, in order to focus her expression into a more pop-oriented project, but with an air of jazz, the touch of soul, the receptiveness and enchantment of spiritual music and the spacious richness of improvisation.