Deb Talan

Deb Talan
Deb Talan
	Talan performing in NYC on April 22, 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Deborah Ruth Talan
Born	January 27, 1968 (age 56)
Origin	Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Indie folk, pop-folk
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Nettwerk, Happyhead Music
Website	theweepies.com

Deborah Ruth "Deb" Talan (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for being part of the folk-pop duo the Weepies.

Early life and career

Born in western Massachusetts, Talan grew up in the small town of Pelham, Massachusetts and attended Amherst Regional High School (ARHS). She later attended Brown University, where she was a member of the Chattertocks, Brown's oldest all-female a cappella group, before moving to Oregon, where she was a member of Hummingfish, a Portland band, for six years.

Talan's recurring lyrical motifs include celestial objects, birds, nature, and various historical figures (e.g., Marc Chagall in "Painting By Chagall," Amelia Earhart in "Thinking Amelia," and Vincent van Gogh in "Vincent").

Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn inspired Deb Talan to write "Tell Your Story Walking". This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One), a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. "Tell Your Story Walking" was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest.

In addition to the Weepies' albums, (Steve Tannen is the other half of the duo), Talan and Tannen collaborated with singer/actress Mandy Moore on her 2007 album Wild Hope. Together, they wrote and recorded five songs with Mandy — the single "Extraordinary," the title track "Wild Hope," "All Good Things," "Few Days Down" and "Looking Forward to Looking Back."^[1]

"Forgiven" played over the closing credits of the 2001 film Lovely & Amazing.

Discography

Year	Title	Label
1997	Songs for a Misfit Heart	Independent
2000	Something Burning	Happyhead Music
2001	Sincerely	Happyhead Music
2004	A Bird Flies Out	Independent
2017	Lucky Girl	Nettwerk

References

^ "On new album and in films, Moore has an edge". The Boston Globe. June 19, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2009.

External links

Deb Talan Official site
http://www.artistsforliteracy.org
Deb Talan collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
Deb Talan on Last.fm
Lovely & Amazing soundtrack

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[1] "On new album and in films, Moore has an edge". The Boston Globe. June 19, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2009.

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