Originally released a year ago, Freedom Is The Purpose is a powerful and raw offering written in response to the relentless injustices that continue to impact our world. Out today, the stripped rework of the track comes as an important reminder to keep having these essential conversations and speaking up if you can. Sharing more MIRI explained: ‘We are still witnessing Genocides and there is so much misinformation being spread on socials and in the media. The far right is in full effect, in the UK we have police arresting people holding signs. There are more of us than the people making decisions that benefit themselves and the 1% yet we are becoming a more authoritarian country. Releasing this version a year later allows me to continue to speak up and out whilst I still have the freedom to do so. I cannot take that freedom for granted.’
MIRI is a singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist born and based in London via Essex. Through her own unique style of outspoken and soulful pop, she uses her music to drive social change, raise awareness and fight for justice. Unafraid to delve into political injustice and the multitude of challenges we confront both within ourselves and in the world around us, a certain courage threads through the various areas of MIRI’s creative practice that shouldn’t go unnoticed.
https://miriofficial.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-is-the-purpose-stripped
Each of MIRI’s songs serves as a reflection of her perceptions and insights, inviting listeners to connect with her message in a profound way. Her broad musical experience links back to her earlier days in the emerging music artist scene where she wrote and jammed with the likes of Estelle at Bagleys Studios and Plan B and Anita Blay at Tribal Sound & Vision Management in Chalk Farm. More recently MIRI worked with Laughta on the single release ‘Burn Their Lies’ and Poet-Campaigner Lady Unchained on her poems ‘The Forgotten People’ and ‘War Against Women & Girls’.
In 2019 MIRI released her EP ‘Soundbites’ which took shape as a four track soulful indie offering peppered with moments of blues and reggae. It was warmly received and scooped support from the likes of Loud Women, Clash, BBC Radio 6, The Canary and more.
Pulling from a vast range of influences including Tracy Champman, Hak Baker, Kae Tempest and more, MIRI’s sound has continued to evolve over the last few years. Shaped by collaborations and her responses to impactful events that might inspire silence in some but instead fuel her voice with more urgency than ever.
With more come from MIRI this year, keep all eyes on her;
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