Miranda Lee Richards

Slim and blonde with brown eyes, Miranda Lee Richards is an American singer-songwriter and former model. She grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of comic book artists Ted and Teresa Richards. After graduating from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, she took up modeling and moved to Paris to pursue it, but hated it and returned home.

Back in San Francisco, she met Kirk Hammett of Metallica through a friend. He gave her guitar lessons and taught her to play Mazzy Star songs. She recorded demos in her basement that reached Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and she joined that band briefly. Later she moved to Los Angeles, where she connected with musicians who contributed to her debut. She has also performed with The Good Listeners and The Jesus and Mary Chain.