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Jeremy Messersmith
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Jeremy Messersmith is an American indie pop musician based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Jeremy Messersmith was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, and grew up in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. He began playing music in church at a young age, and counts Sandi Patti, Carman, DC Talk and Michael W. Smith among his earliest musical influences. He initially played the trumpet, but was forced to stop after having dental braces installed; he then switched to guitar. In 1999, he moved to Minneapolis to study music at North Central University.
After his first album, The Alcatraz Kid, was released in 2006, City Pages called Messersmith the "premier under-30 songwriter in the Twin Cities". The Alcatraz Kid also received the attention of Performing Songwriter, KCRW, and The Current. The album's title was inspired by a man who used the name to prank-call Messersmith's workplace.
Messersmith's second album, The Silver City, was produced by Dan Wilson and features an array of pop songs ranging from the electronically inspired "Miracles" to love songs like "Love You To Pieces".
The Silver City was recognized in a press poll as the second-best album in the Twin Cities in 2008, losing to the then up-and-coming hip-hop act Atmosphere. Messersmith has been featured on NPR, NPR's "Car Talk", Paste magazine, iTunes, The New York Times, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, BoingBoing, USA Today, My Old Kentucky Blog, Yahoo Landing Page, World Cafe Live on WXPN, Independent Film Channel, MTV's "The Real World", NBC's "Chuck", ABC's "Ugly Betty", CBS's "2 Broke Girls", and Showtime's "The United States of Tara". His songs have appeared in a French film and a Norwegian commercial.
Messersmith's Reluctant Graveyard was named one of the Top 10 Albums of 2010 by NPR, Top 25 Videos of 2010 by Paste magazine, and also won the Star Tribune'''s Critics' Poll for Best Local Artist. His video for the Star Wars-themed "Tatooine" went viral, with Messersmith receiving national press in several publications.
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