Melora Creager, formerly Melora Mather, (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist and singer-songwriter best known for her role as lead singer and chief composer of the chamber-rock trio Rasputina.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she grew up in Emporia, Kansas, with an older brother and a younger sister; all children were adopted. Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was an administrator and physicist at a university; both were ver...
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Melora Creager, formerly Melora Mather, (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist and singer-songwriter best known for her role as lead singer and chief composer of the chamber-rock trio Rasputina.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she grew up in Emporia, Kansas, with an older brother and a younger sister; all children were adopted. Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was an administrator and physicist at a university; both were very supportive of music and the arts, and encouraged their children to take up musical instruments. Creager began playing the piano at age five, and the cello at age nine. She gave up the cello in the eighth grade (not wanting to be involved in the orchestra scene), only to pick it up again several years later in college. In the mid-1980s she moved to New York City to study photography at Parsons School of Design, where her friends encouraged her to resume playing the cello. In 1989 Creager formed a duo with Julia Kent called the Travelling...
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