“Growing up in Kiev, I was isolated from the music I loved,” says singer-songwriter Lana Mír, whose self-titled debut is forthcoming on Unfiltered Records. “I couldn’t fulfill myself creatively, so I had no choice but to move to New York.”
Lana was born (a year before the Chernobyl disaster) and raised in the Ukrainian capital, where, as a child, she began to suspect that a world of music existed beyond her reach. MTV had just arrived. It was broadcast once a week, for 30 minutes, but that was enough. “The first video I saw was ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ by Sinead O’Connor,” she recollects. “I’d never seen or heard anything like it.”
