INGRID MICHAELSON

Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson (born December 8, 1979) is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including The Vampire Diaries, Scrubs, Body of Proof, Bones, Grey's Anatomy[2] The Big C, In Plain Sight, and One Tree Hill,[3] as well as in Old Navy's fall 2007 Fair Isle[4] and Opel's/Vauxhall's Meriva 2010 advertising campaigns.[5][6] She is known for being an independent artist and never signing to a major record label, despite achieving a large amount of popularity Michaelson is half Swedish,[7] and was born to artistic parents. Her father, Carl Michaelson, is a composer ("The Praise of Christmas") and her mother, Elizabeth Egbert, is a sculptor. Her mother is of Dutch ancestry.[8] Michaelson took up piano at age four, and trained until seven at Manhattan's Third Street Music School, continuing for many more years at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. While there she met vocal coach Elizabeth McCullough, who worked with her through high school.[9] She is a graduate of Staten Island Technical High School and Binghamton University, where she received a degree in theater.[9] While at Binghamton University she was a member of the Binghamtonics, a co-ed a cappella group, as well as the Pappy Parker Players, an improv comedy group, and the theatre repertory company under Sue Peters. Her time at Binghamton is mentioned in the song "The Hat". She grew up doing a musical theater group called "Kids On Stage". Later in life, she became a director until she decided to pursue her career in music.