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Mira Aroyo

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the electropop band ladytron”. Today it says “bulgarian-born english singer”.
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Mira Aroyo during a concert in Dallas Mira Aroyo ( ), born in Sofia , Bulgaria , in 1977, and now living in London , is a member of the electropop band Ladytron . Of mixed Bulgarian and Hasidic background, Aroyo moved with her family to Israel when she was ten. She is the only member of Ladytron that never lived in Liverpool : Reuben Wu and Daniel Hunt were raised in the city and Helen Marnie studied there. While a DJ in London, Aroyo met Danny Hunt through mutual friends and found that they were DJing the same kind of music. Mira's role in Ladytron has been keyboardist, singer, and as a songwriter.1 She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English.2 Besides her musical interests and abilities, she was a postgraduate research geneticist in the Oxford University's Biochemistry department. She co-authored an article on Species specificity in the activation of Xer recombination at dif by FtsK , published in Molecular Microbiology, 2003 . She is a Pescetarian and is also married. Oxford University Biochemistry Dept. website Date accessed unknown.3

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member of the electropop band ladytron

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bulgarian-born english singer

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