Monday, August 16, 2021

Music Minute: Mira Goto - The Best

 

Mira Goto has recorded and released the upbeat signature song, “The Best,” previously released by the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner. The new recording was produced by Derek Garten at Prime Recording Studio in Nashville and compliments her recently released single on radio “Fine” which is moving rapidly up the radio airplay charts currently on the MusicRow Country Breakout Chart (#38), CDX Traction Mainstream Top 80 (#73) and CDX Traction True Indie Top 10 (#5) and follows her successful radio single “Nobody Warned Me” which reached Music Row Top 40 (#38), CDX Traction Mainstream Top 80 (#73) and CDX Traction True Indie Top 10 (#7) and has had over 80.8K Spotify streams to date.

Download and stream the "The Best" on all digital music platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and more here https://orcd.co/thebestmg  

““The Best” occurred when Mira entered my studio with Nashville’s finest musicians and the tape rolled. Her boldness and musical conviction drove us to a mystical place that day,” stated Producer - Derek Garten. “It is rare when an artist's vision of a song embodies the essence, but redefines the impact. We found that symmetry on “The Best.”

“Tina is to women in rock what Dolly is to women in country. She is a trailblazer, and she made it possible for every woman who followed her,” exclaimed Mira Goto!


It’s not easy being a woman in a male dominated field, however Mira knows that when a woman rules the charts, she RULES the charts. Ms. Tina Turner is no exception!  We stand for strong women, and she is in complete awe of the things Tina Turner has accomplished in her career. As Tina has recently announced her plans for retirement, Mira wanted to cover one of her songs and give it the California country treatment, specifically one of her songs from her own era.  It is Mira’s favorite Tina song, and in her humble opinion, it’s simply her best.

Keep up to date with Mira Goto on social media platforms FacebookInstagramTwitter as well as YouTube for her latest videos and her website www.miragoto.com.

Stream and download her music on digital music platforms SpotifyApple MusicAmazon MusicYouTube MusicPandora and more.

About Mira Goto:
Mira Goto follows in the footsteps of today’s country songwriting superstars, driving powerful lyrics along with catchy choruses throughout her catalogue.  The international, award-winning songwriter and performer inked a production deal with ArtistMax founded by Ken Caillat (Fleetwood Mac, Colbie Caillat) for her EP, “Nobody Warned Me” projected for released winter of 2020. Born and raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California, Mira currently resides in both Santa Cruz, CA and Nashville, TN. Her music journey began at the young age of three years old when she started playing and performing the violin. She traded it in for the guitar as a teenager, and while studying in college for a degree in nursing, she penned her first song. She recalls she would study during the day, and go to open mics at night. Mira recalls it felt more like a hobby at the time, and took several years to evolve into a career.  She saved money for her first EP, under the name Mira Parfitt, by waiting tables and saving her tip money in an empty tissue box in her closet. Since then, she's played in cities across the country, even taking her show across the pond to her wide fan base in Europe. Mira made her radio debut early this year with her single "Nobody Warned Me" which charted at an impressive number 34 on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart. Influenced by a broad range of music genres that included Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat, Sheryl Crow, Simon & Garfunkel, Queen and Dashboard Confessional as well as being inspired by the songwriting of Lori Mckenna, Jane Bach, Steve Seskin, Brandy Clark, Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Kassi Ashton, Dan Wilson, Wrabel and Pink, she finds herself intertwining the influences and techniques to find her own path on the road to writing songs that suit her style. She has shared the stage with such talent as John Ondrasik (of Five for Fighting), Greg Brown, John Craigie, Rhett Miller, and Jason Blume. 
In her own words, Mira strives to play mid-sized venues, “think 200-400 people, a seated theater, in towns I've never been to, sell them out, and hear the crowd singing the words of my songs back to me.  That's what success looks like to me.  Of course I'd love a Grammy, and I'd love to play the Opry, but all those things would be cherries on top of the sundae of a room full of "strangers" who are there to sing your music with you.  They're not really strangers if they know your music though, are they?”
An active member of the West Coast Songwriters since 2017 when she entered their songwriting competition and she won every round through to the grand finals in Berkeley, CA, Mira was awarded with the opportunity to perform at their annual conference.  It was at this conference that she met her now producer, Ken Caillat, and from there everything she has accomplished has been a direct result of winning that competition. In 2019 Goto won the NEXTies Musician of the Year, and in 2020 & 2021 she won The Santa Cruz Good Times' Best Local Musician.

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