Mimi Parker, 55, drummer, singer, and composer for Minnesota indie band Love, died suddenly. Ellen Sparhawk, a fellow musician, and her husband confirmed the sad news.
Who Was Mimi Parker?
Mimi Parker was a famous drummer, singer and composer. He is in the news because he died recently.She was born in 1967 in a small Minnesota town west of Bemidji.
His mother performed country music.From an early age, she was a musician, adding harmony to her sister’s guitar playing and singing. would sing along to both old country and gospel records that his parents would play for him.
She was married to fellow musician Alan Sparhawk and they have two children, Hollis and Cyrus.He was only 55 years old at the time of his death.
Mimi Parker Career
Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk used brushes instead of drumsticks to play a basic drum set consisting of only a snare, cymbal and floor tom, before forming the band Low in 1993 with bassist John Nichols.
“I Could Live in Hope”, the group’s first album from 1994, was named one of the top albums of the 1990s by Pitchfork in 1999.The group has released 13 studio albums to date, and their most recent one.
“Hey What,” earned them a nomination for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) at the 64th Grammy Awards, according to USA Today.
Mimi Parker’s cause of death
On Saturday, she died of ovarian cancer. In the year 2020, he was diagnosed with the disease. Even last year, when she appeared on the Shiroz Radio podcast, she discussed it and said that when people are diagnosed with such problems, they question why they had to do it.
