Michael Scott Parker is an American

United States

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 musician

Musician

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, songwriter

Songwriter

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, and visual artist currently living in Austin

Austin

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, Texas. She had an international upbringing as the elder of Hollywood stuntwoman Ramsey Scott's two children. Her 4th full-length album Naked has established her position among "the singer/songwriter elite." She is known for her dedication to the creative process, and "comes off as a bona fide muse set to plant the seed of self-expression into all of Earth’s creatures."

Michael coined the genre Creature Rock to describe her musical style. Her songwriting has been compared to female musicians Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

, PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...

., and Ani Difranco

Ani DiFranco

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. Michael is also the co-owner of the Oh My! Music record label and Creature Rock publishing company
her partner is her husband Mathew L. Parker.
Among the accolades she has received are the 2003 Great American Song Contest honor award, the 2005 Peak Area Performance and Artist Award (PAPAA) award for Best Solo/Duo in Popular Music, and in 2006, The Gazette

The Gazette (Colorado Springs)

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's "Best of the Springs" award in the category of "Best singer-songwriter-artist-pilates instructor."

Discography

• Painting Pictures (2003)
• Sacred Box (2004)
• Special PAPAA release (2004)
• Almost Naked (2006)
• Naked (2008)
• "The Creature Sessions" (2010)

External links

• Official Site
• http://www.gazette.com/entertainment/band_13775___article.html/lucard_free.html
• http://www.gazette.com/entertainment/parker_14311___article.html/gould_flores.html