Naomi Striemer
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Naomi Striemer is a Canadian
/American
singer. She was raised on a hobby farm
in Malagash Point, near Truro, Nova Scotia
and homeschooled
by strict missionary parents. At age ten, her family moved to Manitoba
where in 1993 the 11-year-old recorded an album of Christian
music. Before that point, she had never watched television nor listened to the radio. In 1998 her family moved again, this time to Florida
.
In an article in Billboard that ran in February 2007, Striemer told writer Chuck Taylor that her parents "were artistic people, hippies going the opposite way to vegetarian farmland. They did a total 360. I was completely unaware of their previous world, and a trusting child who wasn’t particularly curious. We would play tapes in the car, either classical music or folk bible songs and sermons; that was the only world I knew.”
In April 2001, Striemer was signed by Epic Records
and completed her first album for them in 2003 which was never released following a shakeup at Epic's parent, Sony BMG. The following year she and her family moved to the rural community of Delhi, Ontario. Conflicted over Epic's shelving of her album, she nonetheless continued performing in the Toronto
area where she met her next manager, following a performance at an Indigo Bookstore
. Steven Nowack subsequently founded S Records to launch Striemer's career and she was the first artist signed to S Records.
In a November 21, 2006 interview on CBC radio's
"Sounds Like Canada
", Striemer revealed that she is very protective of her voice. Her diet excludes caffeine, fizzy drinks and very hot / cold items. Concerning her childhood, she reflected on the close ties she had with nature and animals on the farm. While still 5 or 6 she sang with adults in a group. She further stated that she basically knew from an early age she wanted to sing professionally.
Striemer moved to Los Angeles
in 2005. S Records solicited the participation of producer Narada Michael Walden, who has the most number one hits of any producer in history, responsible for writing and producing many of the signature hit songs for Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Following a chance meeting with Carlos Santana at a Marin, County, California steakhouse Santana recorded on Striemer's first cd "Images" on the first single titled "Cars" "Images" was released on December 19, 2006 in Canada on the S Records label and was the No. 1 downloaded album in Canada. "Cars" was released as a single and in his review, Billboard's
Taylor described it as "the year's most promising melodic debut... A standing ovation of an endorsement... Remember the first time you heard Whitney
, Mariah
or Celine
and recognized a star was born?"
Prominent press about Striemer, in addition to the CBC interview, includes the lead story on the CTV National News the most watched and most prominent nightly newscast in Canada, a front page and a feature story in Canada’s national newspaper “National Post,” features on the CTV national news and “Entertainment Tonight,” a lifestyle front in Canada’s “Globe and Mail,” and multiple items in Roger Friedman’s Foxnews.com “Foxlife” column.
In December 2006, S Records offered “Cars” as a free download on Internet site sympatico.msn.ca. The move thrust “Images” to become the No. 1 downloaded album in Canada for the final two weeks of the year, topping discs by Sarah McLachlan, U2 and the Beatles. She repeated the achievement the week of January 15, 2007—after the free download had expired—beating fare from Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban and Gwen Stefani.
In a subsequent profile in Billboard, producer Narada Michael Walden told Taylor, "Steven [Nowack] is very zealous, so I listened to what he had to say, not taking his pitch overly seriously until I met Naomi and heard her live. I was impressed with her beauty, but more so by her voice. You believe her. She has the chops, the range, the drive—and the humility—to offer a beautiful gift.”
Taylor's description of Striemer's "Images" was described as follows in the article:
Highlights of the album include the haunting piano-driven title track, which opens with the lyric, “I found out today my love has found another/And all the things I did to make you happy won’t make you happy anymore,” as Striemer pleads amid urgent percussion, “If I could fight my way back to you/It would only throw me further away.”
“Fall Behind” is Striemer’s intense take on her lost contract at Epic. She sings, “What’s happening/I feel the world slipping apart before my eyes,” amid an inflamed backdrop of electric guitars and howling vocal of defiance.
Shimmering power ballad and first single “Cars” uses the lyrical allegory of counting passing vehicles as she waits for her AWOL man—an allusion to universal diligence in the search for love: “In life, we wait for that one person that is meant for us,” Striemer explains. “They may be with someone else now, but you hold out hope that they exist, so you put on a brave face and wait".
On August 19, 2009, Striemer's 'The Green Album' shot to #2 on Canada's Puretracks album download charts after the release on August 18, 2009. It went to #1 on the same chart August 20, 2009, ahead of Daughtry, Green Day, Kings of Leon and Dave Matthews Band.
In June 2010, Striemer made her debut on the CT20 Christian Radio Charts in Canada debuting at #18, moving up a spot to #17 the following week and up to #11 on June 26, 2010, where she held steady for two weeks with her single 'Perfect (When I Grow Up)' co-written with songwriter Peter Zizzo.
Track List:
Track List:
Track List:
+New edits of theses songs also appear on the Images album.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
/American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer. She was raised on a hobby farm
Hobby farm
A hobby farm is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are merely to provide some recreational land, and perhaps a few horses for the family's children...
in Malagash Point, near Truro, Nova Scotia
Truro, Nova Scotia
-Education:Truro has one high school, Cobequid Educational Centre. Post-secondary options include a campus of the Nova Scotia Community College, as well as the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the neighboring town of Bible Hill.- Sports :...
and homeschooled
Homeschooling
Homeschooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school...
by strict missionary parents. At age ten, her family moved to Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
where in 1993 the 11-year-old recorded an album of Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
music. Before that point, she had never watched television nor listened to the radio. In 1998 her family moved again, this time to Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
.
In an article in Billboard that ran in February 2007, Striemer told writer Chuck Taylor that her parents "were artistic people, hippies going the opposite way to vegetarian farmland. They did a total 360. I was completely unaware of their previous world, and a trusting child who wasn’t particularly curious. We would play tapes in the car, either classical music or folk bible songs and sermons; that was the only world I knew.”
In April 2001, Striemer was signed by Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
and completed her first album for them in 2003 which was never released following a shakeup at Epic's parent, Sony BMG. The following year she and her family moved to the rural community of Delhi, Ontario. Conflicted over Epic's shelving of her album, she nonetheless continued performing in the Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
area where she met her next manager, following a performance at an Indigo Bookstore
Indigo Books and Music
Indigo Books & Music Inc. is a Canadian retail bookstore chain. The company was founded in 1996 by CEO Heather Reisman, wife of Gerry Schwartz, majority owner and CEO of Onex Corporation....
. Steven Nowack subsequently founded S Records to launch Striemer's career and she was the first artist signed to S Records.
In a November 21, 2006 interview on CBC radio's
CBC Radio
CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...
"Sounds Like Canada
Sounds Like Canada
Sounds Like Canada was a Canadian radio program, which aired weekday mornings on CBC Radio One from 2002 to 2008. Until the end of May 2008, the program was hosted by the award-winning broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, and in the summers by a rotating series of guest hosts...
", Striemer revealed that she is very protective of her voice. Her diet excludes caffeine, fizzy drinks and very hot / cold items. Concerning her childhood, she reflected on the close ties she had with nature and animals on the farm. While still 5 or 6 she sang with adults in a group. She further stated that she basically knew from an early age she wanted to sing professionally.
Striemer moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
in 2005. S Records solicited the participation of producer Narada Michael Walden, who has the most number one hits of any producer in history, responsible for writing and producing many of the signature hit songs for Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Following a chance meeting with Carlos Santana at a Marin, County, California steakhouse Santana recorded on Striemer's first cd "Images" on the first single titled "Cars" "Images" was released on December 19, 2006 in Canada on the S Records label and was the No. 1 downloaded album in Canada. "Cars" was released as a single and in his review, Billboard's
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Taylor described it as "the year's most promising melodic debut... A standing ovation of an endorsement... Remember the first time you heard Whitney
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...
, Mariah
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
or Celine
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
and recognized a star was born?"
Prominent press about Striemer, in addition to the CBC interview, includes the lead story on the CTV National News the most watched and most prominent nightly newscast in Canada, a front page and a feature story in Canada’s national newspaper “National Post,” features on the CTV national news and “Entertainment Tonight,” a lifestyle front in Canada’s “Globe and Mail,” and multiple items in Roger Friedman’s Foxnews.com “Foxlife” column.
In December 2006, S Records offered “Cars” as a free download on Internet site sympatico.msn.ca. The move thrust “Images” to become the No. 1 downloaded album in Canada for the final two weeks of the year, topping discs by Sarah McLachlan, U2 and the Beatles. She repeated the achievement the week of January 15, 2007—after the free download had expired—beating fare from Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban and Gwen Stefani.
In a subsequent profile in Billboard, producer Narada Michael Walden told Taylor, "Steven [Nowack] is very zealous, so I listened to what he had to say, not taking his pitch overly seriously until I met Naomi and heard her live. I was impressed with her beauty, but more so by her voice. You believe her. She has the chops, the range, the drive—and the humility—to offer a beautiful gift.”
Taylor's description of Striemer's "Images" was described as follows in the article:
Highlights of the album include the haunting piano-driven title track, which opens with the lyric, “I found out today my love has found another/And all the things I did to make you happy won’t make you happy anymore,” as Striemer pleads amid urgent percussion, “If I could fight my way back to you/It would only throw me further away.”
“Fall Behind” is Striemer’s intense take on her lost contract at Epic. She sings, “What’s happening/I feel the world slipping apart before my eyes,” amid an inflamed backdrop of electric guitars and howling vocal of defiance.
Shimmering power ballad and first single “Cars” uses the lyrical allegory of counting passing vehicles as she waits for her AWOL man—an allusion to universal diligence in the search for love: “In life, we wait for that one person that is meant for us,” Striemer explains. “They may be with someone else now, but you hold out hope that they exist, so you put on a brave face and wait".
On August 19, 2009, Striemer's 'The Green Album' shot to #2 on Canada's Puretracks album download charts after the release on August 18, 2009. It went to #1 on the same chart August 20, 2009, ahead of Daughtry, Green Day, Kings of Leon and Dave Matthews Band.
In June 2010, Striemer made her debut on the CT20 Christian Radio Charts in Canada debuting at #18, moving up a spot to #17 the following week and up to #11 on June 26, 2010, where she held steady for two weeks with her single 'Perfect (When I Grow Up)' co-written with songwriter Peter Zizzo.
Discography
- Images (CD) - S Records - 2006
Track List:
- 1. Cars
- 2. Images
- 3. I Know That It's Love
- 4. Three Days Ago
- 5. I Believe (Theme Song For The Hospital For Sick Children)
- 6. Derailed
- 7. Last Chance
- 8. I'm Taking Everything
- 9. Reach The Top
- 10. Fall Behind
- 11. Something to Lose
- 12. Starting Gate
- 13. J’Irai Au Sommet
- 14. I Love You Still
- 15. Go Away
- 16. Wild About You
- 17. United We Stand
- The Green Album (CD) - Solo Andeavor Records - 2009 (11.08.2009)
Track List:
- 1. Let Me Go
- 2. Fall Behind +
- 3. Stay With Me (Tonight)
- 4. Live Through You
- 5. Starting Gate +
- 6. Run
- 7. Play Along
- 8. End Of Time
- 9. Waiting
- 10. I'll Catch Up
- 11. Sailing Away
- EightyEight (CD) - NellsNotes Records - 2010 (6.04.2010)
Track List:
- 1. Breathe
- 2. We Can Stay Together
- 3. Embrace The Day
- 4. Set You Free
- 5. Why
- 6. Open Cage
- 7. Trust Now
- 8. Toy Soldier
- 9. Tell Me You Love Me
+New edits of theses songs also appear on the Images album.