  meiko () is an american singer/songwriter, currently residing in los angeles, california. she independently released a self-titled album on september 1, 2007. all of the tracks from the lp have been featured in major network tv shows. her second full-length, titled the bright side, was released through fantasy records on may 15, 2012, and a single from the album, "stuck on you", reached #1 on the combined japanese airplay chart and #1 on the international chart in japan. ==early life== raised by her father in the small town of roberta, georgia, meiko first stepped in front of an audience at the age of eight, singing âwhite christmasâ for parishioners of a southern baptist church. in the years that followed, she performed everywhere from talent shows to little league baseball parks. when she was not performing, she was practicing - spending countless hours singing into the family's clothes dryer. "great acoustics," she insisted. she soon developed an interest in writing songs and enlisted the help of her dad, who taught her how to play guitar on his gibson six-string. when she was thirteen, he bought her a guitar of her own. a flood of songs followed. "as soon as i learned a new chord," she says, "i wrote a new song." ==music career== at eighteen, meiko left her hometown to showcase her talents to a wider audience. after a brief stop in miami, she moved to los angeles and began her career, playing venues all over southern california and writing at a prolific pace. she performed (and bartended) at hollywood's hotel cafÃ©, where she still performs regularly. in early 2007, meiko performed at the sundance film festival and caught the ear of paste magazine editor josh jackson, who declared her a "big success story" waiting to happen, predicting it was "only a matter of time" before she found her w
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