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Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.

Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer. Nadler studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and was an art teacher in Harlem, New York for a short time. However, music soon became her favored artistic outlet. As a teenager, she learned to play guitar from her brother in a style similar to cotton picking, playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out syncopated rhythms with the index finger. After her brother left his guitar at home and went off to college, she taught herself to play and began writing songs. While exploring old artistic techniques such as illustration, painting, bookbinding, woodcarving and encaustic painting, she also began to further hone her songwriting craft. She subsequently recorded an album titled "Autumn Rose", as well as another EP, both of which have never been released.