Mira Black is a vocalist, songwriter, poet, and theatrical storyteller whose work moves through music, spoken word, grief, sensuality, survival, and spirit.
Her sound draws from folk, contemporary pop, jazz, gospel, house, and poetic monologue. Whether performing songs from her album MIRA or developing her original musical Journey of Ashes, Mira creates work that invites the listener into a deeper relationship with truth, feeling, and the authentic voice.
Her music is not built for escape. It is built for listening, for recognition, and for the strange mercy of being fully alive.
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Mira Black is a Canadian vocalist, songwriter, poet, and theatrical storyteller whose work moves through grief, sensuality, survival, spirit, and the authentic voice. Her album MIRA was written across two years in Chicago, while her developing musical Journey of Ashes brings original songs and spoken storytelling into a theatrical concert world shaped by love, loss, resilience, and repair.
PRESS & PRAISE
“One of Canada’s best kept secrets.”
~ Maclean’s Magazine
“Mira Black creates a circus for the heart.”
~ CBC Radio Canada
“No box defines her.”
~ Huffington Post
“Smoky vocals weaving through haunting melodies.”
~ RHiG Magazine
“I’m inspired by your depth of emotion and connection.”
~ Sarah McLachlan, songwriter
“Mira’s voice will change
the way you experience music.”
~ Vince Lawrence, Slang Music Group
“I write so I won’t forget. I write so I can return to a moment, learn from it, seek answers, or be with love again in the present. My music comes from the places my heart keeps revisiting: endings, beginnings, grief, freedom, memory, pleasure, and pain. Each time I return, I see something new. The pain and the pleasure both lead me back to the same passion.”
~ Mira Black
Mira’s Western Canadian Music Award-nominated album, MIRA, moves outside any neatly defined genre. Written across two years in Chicago and produced by Chicago house music pioneer Vince Lawrence, the album carries elements of ambient electronica, contemporary soul, poetic storytelling, and raw emotional confession.
The sound is spacious and intimate, built from sparse stop-and-start beats, atmospheric textures, and Mira’s unmistakable vocal presence. Rather than crowding the songs, the production gives her lyrics room to rise. Each track feels close, vulnerable, and alive.
At its centre, MIRA is an album about truth, survival, heartbreak, forgiveness, sensuality, and the difficult work of becoming whole. It does not turn away from dark or complicated material. Instead, it brings those experiences into the light, where grief, desire, love, and repair can be heard with greater honesty.
“Mira’s voice will change the way you experience music.”
~ Vince Lawrence
Working together became a process of excavation. Lawrence describes the project as sound design built around Mira’s intense vocals, raw compositions, poetic lyrics, and proudly honest storytelling. The goal was not to hide behind production, but to strip away excess and reach the emotional core of each song.
For Mira, writing is both artistic practice and inner transformation. Her songs speak from childhood conditioning, heartbreak, personal divinity, survival, and true love. They return to the moments that shaped her, not to stay trapped inside them, but to listen again, understand differently, and make something beautiful from what once felt impossible to hold.
Mira’s art is a labour of love in the truest sense of the word.
“The more authentic and conscious I can be with my experience, listening to the voice of the silence, the more it can touch yours. And then we are together, even on the darkest roads.”
~ Mira Black
Mira now brings this depth back to the live stage, embracing the soul of the troubadour, the intimacy of jazz and folk, the pulse of electronic music, and the theatrical power of spoken word. Her work continues to unfold through songs, stories, and performances that invite the listener into truth, tenderness, and the authentic voice.
SiriusXM
"I'll never forget you Mira Black!"
Richard Gere (actor)