Mariah van Kleef

Mariah van Kleef’s upbringing was eclectic for a one stoplight, early 90’s farm town in South Carolina. She was never baptized – her parents insisting that one’s spirituality should be “a personal decision”. She was then privately introduced to a roughly pantheistic blend of spiritual practices and mythologies from around the world. Her parents immigrated from the Netherlands; her mother bestowing a rich, Indonesian ancestry and passing on that experience reverently. Van Kleef’s current range of releases reflect this mix, shapeshifting between tender folk, Bossa Nova, surrealist R&B, nordic ambience, and a little middle eastern groove.

She is currently working in many directions with several mediums. Without a doubt, her muse continues to beckon her into various directions…whispering a dare to birth every depth of her experience into the grasp of this world.

Eminem has done some acting work, most notably in the 2002 semi-autobiographical movie 8 Mile, for which he wrote and recorded the Academy Award–winning song “Lose Yourself.”