The pop maverick behind Tune-Yards on Roald Dahl, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin and vegan Mexican food Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus: 'I feel lucky to have a global awareness of what's going on.' Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Merrill Garbus is the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind experimental indie-pop project Tune-Yards. Brought up in Connecticut, Garbus worked as a puppeteer in Vermont before relocating to Montreal, where she played ukulele in the band Sister Suvi. In 2009, Garbus recorded her first album as Tune-Yards, titled Bird-Brains, using a Dictaphone and music program GarageBand. Tune-Yards were later signed to 4AD and the album released...
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