Miz Metro

Laura O'Reilly aka Miz Metro, is a creative, laidback, quirky musician from New York City. (She's also my homegirl). In H.S she received the award for musical theatre/spoken word from the Presidential Scholar National Foundation of the Arts. They ranked her in the top 5% of teenage singers and actors in the USA. [[THAT'S CRAZY!]] With such a natural gift for song writing, at 16 she began to write songs that later went on to be licensed to MTV's MADE!I wish I could be MADE to do that..Yeah so, in June 2008 she performed one of her hit songs "T.V Land" on Fox 5's "Fearless Music" tv show. The show aired internationally and she won the viewers pole for best performance.


Miz Metro is a New Media/Studio Composition dean's list student at SUNY Purchase. I recently saw her at a charity event at Marcy Playground and I remember her telling me that she couldn't believe she had achieved a 4.0 gpa for the last two semesters. I couldn't believe that shit either! I only recieved a 3.5 and she is way more busy than I am...anyway, with all that going on, she still made time to perform as an official showcasing artist at the 2008 SXSW first ever SOUL showcase. She has also performed along side Ladybug Mecca, of the Grammy winning group Digable Planets. In response to her performance at Mixtape Riot, URB magazine said that "Miz Metro's rare voice and style were something never heard before in NYC." Personally, I believe that Miz Metro's sound resembles Gwen Stefani's but I will agree with the quote since Gwen Stefani is not from New York.


Miz Metro has graced over 60 stages from California to London, engaging audiences with her quirky stage presence and well crafted songs. It is her "fresh dynamic", as Chuck Taylor from Billboard Magazine puts it, that is making Miz Metro a creative force in the music industry. "But it isn't her sense of style that pulls in the audience. Her powerful, controlled voice blends with and rises above the music to bring her message of social change," explains ClubPlanet.com.


The name "Miz Metro" came from Lady Sovereign at the 2006 WMC. Laura was interviewing Lady Sov and she happened to be wearing her favorite metro card doorknockers. Lady Sov called her "Miss Metrocard", the card got dropped, the Z got added and the rest is history. The name fit like a puzzle piece, at the time Miz Metro was also the ringleader of her "Urban Gypsy Circus." They were a series of loft parties at a 5,000 square ft. loft space in SoHo, New York.







She has done VJ work conducting exclusive interviews with Fab 5 Freddy, GZA and Spankrock working along side Santi White for Panjea.com. Miz Metro has also been featured as a solo artist on "Breaking For the Holidays" along side the likes of Chaka Khan, Ben Jelen and Sandra Bernhard. As co-presenter of the "Hip Hop Howl Mixtape" for the Lower East Side's HOWL! Festival, she's been featured next to Grammy nominated singer Emily King, Mickey Facts, Louis Logic among many other fierce talents coming out of NYC.



Miz Metro's debut album "UNLIMITED" is a mix of studio tracks and songs recorded with her 7 piece band "The Makebelieves." It will be released in early July 2009. From her experience with editing her own music videos, she designs all the fliers for her shows and promotions. Miz Metro is a bold communicator and a leader in building community within the New York's hip hop thrift shop scene. Poised to be a future media music mogul, she's the next Madonna, but the first Miz Metro.


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