Ryan Matthew Miller (born November 21, 1972) is an American musician. He is the lead singer for the

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band

Guster Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and fo ...

playing guitar, piano and bass.

Life and career

Ryan was born on November 21, 1972, in

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, to Ross and Cookie Miller. He grew up as an only child and was raised in Dallas, Texas, graduating from

Berkner High School Lloyd V. Berkner High School is a high school in Richardson, in the U.S. state of Texas, with a 2008 enrollment of 2,755 and a student/teacher ratio of 16.7. It is one of four high schools in the Richardson Independent School District. Histor ...

in 1991,(10 September 2006)
Band seeks Texas fans for its evolving style
''

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'', Retrieved November 27, 2010 ("After Miller graduated from Berkner in 1991 he decided to attend college at Tufts University near Boston....") where he had his own band, the Silents. He majored in religious studies at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

and graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1995.Geller, Mitchell (1 November 2010)
Makes it Rain
''

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'', Retrieved November 27, 2010 He has since pursued a full-time career in music and art. Guster was formed when Miller met bandmates

Adam Gardner Adam Seth Gardner (born May 31, 1973) is an American guitarist and vocalist of the band Guster and a member of the Tufts University Beelzebubs. Gardner grew up outside Morristown, New Jersey, and played for a band called Royal Flush while a stud ...

and Brian Rosenworcel while the three were

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in August 1991,Junior, Chris M (7 October 1999).
Creative Guster headed for TLA
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'', Retrieved November 27, 2010 ("Guster formed about seven years ago when Ryan Miller vocals guitars Adam Gardner vocals guitars and Brian Rosenworcel percussion were freshmen at Tufts...") a few years later, they met bandmate

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Film Composer

Miller composed the scores for films ''

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'' (2012), ''

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'' (2013), '' In a World...'' (2013), Tig (2015),''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2017) and '' The Last Summer'' (2019) and ''How It Ends'' (2021), the television show '' Playing House'' (2017).

Songwriter

Miller has had several collaborations with other artists such as "Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go" written by Miller for

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and the film ''Book of Henry'', "The Clown" with

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for his

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project as well as co-producing "Words" with

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for the film ''Tig''.

Television Host

Spurred by a move from NYC to Vermont, Miller created a TV series on

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called ''Makin' Friends with Ryan Miller'' in which he travels around the state making friends with "high functioning weirdos". He then served as the creative director and host of Vermont PBS' live music and interview show
Bardo
' interviewing

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among others. Miller has appeared as a guest several times on ''

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,'' as well as providing multiple theme songs for their various fundraisers and the theme song for their current weekly broadcast. He appeared on the 2017 stage show performance titled ''Thank the Maker,'' as well as their ''May the AR Be LI$$ You'' Arli$$ marathon fundraiser, and ''The George Lucas Holiday Special'' in 2020''.'' During the pandemic, Miller hosted a web series that featured guests like Mike Gordon.

Writer

Miller is co-writer, with director Rob Perez, of the 2009 movie ''Nobody'' and served as the film's composer. Miller has written about his experience as a touring musician during Covid for

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, articulating his experience headlining Red Rocks "I Performed A Career Highlight Show, Then Delta Hit" and "Omicron's Blow To Live Music". In 2021, Miller launched a Substack newsletter calle
Weird And Wonderful World
where he writes about sandwiches, tiny museums, haunted houses, art installations and other weird/wonderful places and things.

Animation Project

Miller and Alex Plapinger co-created the animated short serie
"Pretty Good Story"
a 10-episode series hosted by Miller and with hand painted frames by musician/artist John Andrews ( Woods, Cut Worms).

References

External links

"Nobody" Trailer page on Apple.com
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