Suki Ewers

Suki Ewers grew up in Seattle but as a child she and her family lived in Germany, Taiwan, and Japan.
In the early 80's Suki played in a couple of different bands in Seattle with her brother. They were called "The Tears" and "Second Story".

Suki joined Opal in 1985. Kendra Smith had an ad in the paper looking for a keyboard player and Suki who liked the Dream Syndicate records and the Clay Allison single, decided to join the band. In Opal she sang harmonies on many of the Happy Nightmare Baby songs and she also wrote "Strange Delight" and "Brigit on Sunday" to Opal's Early Recordings album. It's Suki that sings the lead vocal on "Brigit on Sunday". She followd the rest of the musicians in Opal into Mazzy Star.

In Mazzy Star Suki played keyboards, rhythm guitar (acoustic and electric) and some bass. Suki contributed on the "She Hangs Brightly" album but did not play on "Among My Swan" or "So Tonight That I Might See". However she appears in the video for "Fade Into You" (both versions) and did all of the touring for "So Tonight That I Might See". She also played at the last California shows of the "Among My Swan" tour.

In 1993 she started another band called Anemone with some friends in San Francisco. The fact that Mazzy Star took alot of her time she moved to Los Angeles where she found new people to her band. Anemone was Suki Ewers on vocals and guitar, Jane Fujimoto on drums, Laura Smith on bass and Russ Chaput on guitar.

After performing for several years with Anemone, and also played in "Maw and Paw" for a brief period, Suki spent the last couple of years in the studio working with Joe Kennedy on a set of nine songs. The result is hazy, bittersweet pop in the vein of Galaxie 500 and Felt. The songs are at once dreamy and enigmatic yet immediately accessible. August 19th 2008 she released the album "Kind of Hazy" on Mind Expansion Records. Be sure to check out Suki's MySpace website and listen to her beautiful music.

Suki is, just like Jill Emery a gifted painter. The art was always something secret that went on behind the scenes. She did photography for a long time and began painting while Mazzy Star was in the studio recording the first album "She Hangs Brightly".