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Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist and singer-songwriter. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she grew up in Emporia, Kansas, with an older brother and a younger sister; all children were adopted. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Emporia is a city in and the County seat of Lyon County, Kansas, United States. Adoption is the act of legally placing a child with a Parent or parents other than those to whom they were born Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was an administrator and physicist at a university; both were very supportive of 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. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The City of New York Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons) is a Design school founded in 1896 (see below In 1989 Creager formed a duo with Julia Kent called the Travelling Ladies' Cello Society. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Julia Kent is a Canadian cellist best known as an original member of all-cello group Rasputina. Kent remained in the band for ten years, finally leaving in 1999 amid much drama and disagreement; she and Creager's relationship has been described by Creager as a "decade-long dysfunctional marriage. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) " In 1991 Creager founded the Brooklyn-based alternative band Rasputina, which originally consisted of six other cellists (whom she found by placing classified ads in the newspaper). Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Rasputina is a band consisting mostly of cellists. The band officially began in Brooklyn, New York in 1992 when Melora Creager put out an advertisement The group was influenced by both rock and classical cello music. By 1996 the band was trimmed down to two other cellists and a drummer. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Creager also played cello for Nirvana on the European leg of the In Utero world tour (including the band's final show in Munich). Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen Washington. For the Nirvana album see In Utero. In utero is a Latin term literally meaning "in the Uterus " Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany.

Creager is known for her unique fashion sense, including an obvious interest in corsets and Victorian bloomers, which she wears during her live performances. A corset is a Garment worn to mold and shape the Torso into a desired shape for Aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or During the middle and late '''Victorian''' period, various reformers proposed designed and wore clothing supposedly more rational and comfortable than the fashions of the time She is also fascinated with historical events and people of the past, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, Howard Hughes, Rose Kennedy, victims of Josef Mengele, and others. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest Industrial disaster in the history of the city of New Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Howard Robard Hughes Jr (December 24 1905 – April 5 1976 was an American Aviator, Industrialist, Film producer / director, Philanthropist Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy ( July 22, 1890 &ndash January 22, 1995) was the wife of Joseph Kennedy and the mother of President Dr Josef Mengele ( March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a Physician in the She weaves these stories into the lyrics of her songs, as well as creating fictional stories of her own, sang in her wispy, tremulous vocals. The song "Mr. E. Leon Rauis" on the album Thanks for the Ether was inspired by a black-and-white photograph of a man she found in an attic, and expresses the wonder she felt about him and what his life could have been like. Thanks for the Ether is the debut album of Rasputina, released in 1996 with Columbia Records. It is now known that his name was actually E. Leon Rains, and he was a fairly well-known opera singer from around the turn of the 19th century till the middle of the 20th century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Creager's lyrics employ a sly, dark irony and quirky humour. Her songs can be enigmatic and vaguely ominous.

In 2003, Creager starred in the 13-minute film On My Knees, based on The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909 was a Victorian era Diarist and Domestic servant.

Creager is the mother of a young daughter named Hollis Willa Lane, who wrote and sang the lyrics of the song "Nov. 17dee" on the album Frustration Plantation. Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by Cello -dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on

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