“I love music in a way that is sick! If I could, I would marry it, make a life with it so we could have little notes of our very own. It’s all about music, performing, and connecting for me. I’m like a spider, I lure you into my web and you can’t help but stay there…but instead of sucking you dry after a gig I hope you’ll want to take me home for a glass of wine and a chat – or at least some tea.”

Mirenda Rosenberg is an energetic, engaging woman with a huge personality…and she sings. This charismatic, evening dress-wearing performer has an innate ability to create an intimate connection with the audience. And this full-on singer isn’t afraid to interact and go on a random stroll during gigs!

Although born into a professional family in Springfield, Illinois, the young Mirenda grew up outside Washington, DC where her father was an ordained minister. Due to her strict upbringing, her insatiable craving for music was limited to Christian and classical music but she would secretly listen to jazz and blues on her older brother’s radio. Exposure to emotive singers such as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith allowed Mirenda to absorb their music and to imagine how they performed.

"I was too young to understand the content of their music, but I couldn’t miss the spirit of it. I’d listen to the jazz and blues station then I’d get a hair brush for a microphone, stand on the hearth of the fireplace, and give full on performances to a stuffed animal audience. Even at that age I had songs in me that needed to get out and I’d make up tunes. If my parents wandered into the room my jazz songs became gospel music. I could get very holy very quickly.”

Her precocious nature was obvious when she asked to perform an unaccompanied gospel solo in church at the age of four. When her improvised song showed no sign of ending, the young child had to be subtly removed from the pulpit!

Driven to perform, she sang at every opportunity. Her early love of classical music saw her spend years singing in Madrigal choirs in the Historical Fredericksburg Virginia as a teenager. At 14, she sang in venues throughout the United States with the Maranatha Choir, a Christian music group.

Mirenda continued to pursue classical music when she studied vocal performance in college but made some pocket money singing jazz standards on the weekends. Roles in a state Opera house performing in Suor Angelica and The Masked Ball followed!

"I knew then I wasn’t cut out for Opera. If I have a choice between big Wagnerian Horn Helmet head and an evening dress with flowers in my hair – the evening dress wins hands down. I want to be able to connect to my audience – I need to be able to walk up to someone, look them in the eye and share myself with them or talk to the woman in the crowd who looks like she’s having a bad day. I can’t do that pumping out an aria. I besides, more than anything else I need to be able to croon what I’m feeling – jazz, soul, funk, blues or whatever I’m feeling.”

In 2005, she relocated to Ireland. After joining the band Kingfish, she started to draw attention. The band didn’t draw rave reviews, but Mirenda’s soulful voice shone through and her gutsy performances were undeniable.

A chance encounter at a gig set a series of events in place and when Kingfish split up seven months later, Mirenda was put in touch with music lecturer and musician, Marc Geagan. Within hours of their brief discussion, Marc had assembled guitarist Zac Drummond (ex Riverdance), guitarist Alan Cooke, bassist Emmet Brady and drummer Kevin Lowry. Each band member came from a different musical background and influences included Irish traditional, jazz, rock, and flamenco.

With TV appearances on RTE and TG4 as well a stunning performance for BBC radio, Mirenda is fast becoming sensation. She now spends her nights performing in her trademark sexy and vivacious style. Her influences of classical, gospel, jazz and blues are reflected in the bands exciting repertoire that includes songs by Billie Holiday, the Police, and Otis Redding in addition to their original material.

"All I ever want to do is sing. I was made to write songs and then stand in front of people and use those songs to entertain them. I must be the luckiest chick in the world because I am in a band with ridiculously talented men who were meant to do the same thing. WE are the Mirenda Rosenberg Band, not ME but WE, and the music that comes out of us is diverse and an extension of who we are."