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Born in New York City, Fox started playing drums at nine, and then guitar when she was ten. She was inspired by the wide variety of music enjoyed by her family - show tunes, classical, Dixieland, Motown - and her own youthful inclination toward pop, folk, and R&B. She began touring right out of high school and eventually moved to San Francisco in 1979, where she became a sought-after musician.. Mimi asserts her place among the jazz elite with the release of Perpetually Hip, her most daring and fully realized project to date. With the ambitious two-CD set Perpetually Hip, her seventh release as a leader, Mimi Fox once again displays the masterful command of the fretboard that has led to her being named a winner in five consecutive Down Beat Magazine International Critics Polls (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). Fox maintains a whirlwind touring schedule, playing major jazz clubs and festivals from New York to Tokyo, including tours of the Caribbean, Japan, Thailand and Australia.. She is a favorite at jazz and music festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center Women in Jazz Festival, the Guinness Cork Ireland Jazz Festival, the Britt Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival, the San Francisco & San Jose Jazz Festivals, the Perth International Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot, Port Townsend and Monterey Jazz Festivals. Phil Elwood, dean of the San Francisco music critics, singled her out: "Outstanding performer. From the galaxy of stars at the JazzFest, guitarist Mimi Fox came across as the brightest." She is Chair of the Guitar Department at the innovative Jazz School in Berkeley, California and adjunct professor at New York University. website
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