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Miki Berenyi
Miki Berenyi
	; Miki Berenyi Live
Background information
Birth name	Miki Berenyi
Born	March 18, 1967 (age 42); London, England
Genres	Rock, Shoegaze
Instruments	Singing, Guitar
Years active	1988 - 1998
Associated acts	Lush

Miki Berenyi (born 18 March 1967, in London, UK^[1]) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.^[2]^[3] She was the lead singer of now disbanded group, Lush.

[edit] Music

Main article: Lush (band)

At the age of 14, Miki Berenyi met her friend and future bandmate, Emma Anderson. They became interested in music and together wrote the music fanzine Alphabet Soup (which only lasted for five issues).^[4] Berenyi first played bass with the band, The Bugs,^[5] and later went on to play with I-Goat, Fuhrer Five, and the Lillies.^[1] "In 1988, Berenyi studied English literature at London's Polytechnic University, where she met drummer Christopher Acland, bassist Steve Rippon, and singer Meriel Barham. Along with Anderson, they decided to form their own band."^[4] When Meriel Barham left, "the remaining members of Lush placed ads in local papers looking for Barham's replacement, but they couldn't find the singer they wanted, and Berenyi took over the vocals."^[4]

From the years 1988 until 1998, she played with the band Lush, releasing several albums, singles and videos, and toured extensively through the UK, North America, Japan, Australia and other various parts of the world.^[4]
^[6] Lush officially announced their breakup on February 23, 1998.^[4]

After Lush split, following the suicide of drummer Chris Acland, she appeared as guest on The Rentals 1999 album Seven More Minutes (Track 4: "The Cruise"). "Miki has also contributed vocals to a remix of a Flat 7 track by former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie (who incidentally produced Lush's early work),"^[1] and she will be appearing on four tracks as a guest vocalist for Eric Matthews' new project Seinking Ships on their debut album, due to be released sometime in late 2008.^[1]^[7]

When asked if she missed anything about her time in Lush, she says, "I miss the excitement and energy of playing live and the camaraderie of touring – being with the band and crew in a foreign country is like going on holiday with your mates but even more fun because it’s free."^[8] "I enjoyed being in the band immensely, I’m glad I did it."^[9]

She currently works for a magazine as a sub-editor.^[10]

[edit] Facts and trivia

Miki Berenyi circa 1989

Berenyi is of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage.^[11]
Her mother, Yasuko Nagazumi was a Japanese actress who played minor roles in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and in TV-series Space: 1999.^[12]
Berenyi Light Arms, a fictional firearms company, was named after her in the SLA Industries Role-playing game. Her likeness appears in one of the illustrations in the SLA Industries rulebook.
Miki is a fairly common girl's name in Japan(ese)
The name Miki in Hungarian is a male nickname, standing for Miklós (Nick, in English). There is a famous male character in the Hungarian soap opera "Amongst Friends" called Berenyi Miki (Berényi Miklós, actually) - Hungarians use family name at first position and given name at second - actually a boss of Berenyi LTD.
On playing guitar, "I was never a proper guitarist – only in the context of Lush. I played the guitar to write songs on and to play live."^[8]
Played 506 shows in 8 years with Lush^[13]
There is an online Bring Back Miki Campaign to which she responds, "I guess it’s flattering that anybody gives a shit. Not sure how enthusiastic the support would be if they realised that bringing back Miki Berenyi would deliver a 40-year-old office employee with greying hair who's still struggling to shift the weight from her last pregnancy."^[10]

[edit] Discography

Scar (mini-LP) - October 1989
Gala - December 1990
Spooky - January 1992
Split - June 1994
Lovelife - March 1996
Ciao! The Best of Lush - 2001

[edit] External links

Under the Radar interview, Nov. 2007 http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/miki_berenyi_interview_1020071/
vonpipmusicalexpress − Interview with Miki, published Jan. 25, 2008
vonpipmusicalexpress − Miki commenting Lush promo photos, published Jan. 27, 2008
http://www.lightfromadeadstar.org/

[edit] References

[freeweb-0] ttp://www.freewebs.com/mikiberenyi/

[1] ttp://lightfromadeadstar.org/Discography/Index.htm

[2] ttp://guitargeek.com/rigview/39/

[lightbio-3] ttp://www.lightfromadeadstar.org/Biographies/Index.htm

[4] ttp://www.lightfromadeadstar.org/Miki/index.htm

[5] ttp://www.curve.demon.co.uk/lush/press/p_art3.html

[6] ttp://www.seinkingships.com/Main/

[sweetness-7] ttp://vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/sweetness-and-light-the-miki-berenyi-interview-2008/

[8] ttp://vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/old-favorites-lush/

[berenyi-9] ttp://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/miki_berenyi_interview_1020071/

[10] ttp://eyesore.no/html/interview/Lush.interview.go.html

[11] ttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619247/

[12] ttp://www.lightfromadeadstar.org/Gigography/Index.htm

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Contents

[edit] Music

[edit] Facts and trivia

[edit] Discography

[edit] External links

[edit] References