Mika Posen is a Canadian

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and

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based in

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. She is known for collaborating and performing with acts including

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, and

Forest City Lovers Forest City Lovers are a Canadian folk indie pop band formed in 2006 in Toronto, Ontario. The band is centred on the songwriting of singer and guitarist Kat Burns. She is backed by violinist Mika Posen, bassist Kyle Donnelly, keyboardist Timothy ...

and performs as a solo artist under the name Merganzer. Her first solo album, ''Mirror Maze'' was released in 2015 and was recorded over the course of several years in Berlin, Germany. A second solo album, ''Montage'' was released in 2019. Posen grew up in Ottawa and is the daughter of Canadian singer and songwriter

Shelley Posen Shelley (I. Sheldon) Posen is a Canadian folklorist, singer and songwriter, a member of the folk trio Finest Kind, and a former writer of the 'Songfinder' column for ''Sing Out!'' In the 1970s, while still a graduate student, he was the Directo ...

. She left at 18 and spent several years living in Guelph, Toronto, and Berlin. Posen completed a double degree in music and biology at the

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and obtained a master's degree in ethnomusicology at

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. She returned to Ottawa in 2017 in part due to the rising costs associated with living in Toronto.

References

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