https://facebook.com/miaragomusic/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qPjJewS6IkwKhD3oJAZKQ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mia-rago/1431625028 https://miarago.com/ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mia-rago/1431625028 With bass, bongo, snare and guitar, indie pop singer-songwriter Mia Rago pulls you into her trippy, boppin’ little alt-pop love-gone-wrong song “The Shower.” And, it has a touch of the operatic, as Mia plays with her classically trained voice and invites the listener to come play with her in the debris left from a breakup. “The Shower” releases on August 9. “It is playful,” she said. “Lyrically, it feels like one big run-on sentence, just the thoughts going through your head, like, ‘What happened? What did I do? What did he do? What did they do wrong?’ All this stuff that makes you feel absolutely crazy with a breakup.” From the start of this affair we were 25 years young  And now I’m starting to regret what I said when I thought  You’re the one who always called The only man of the hour And I still just can’t believe I think about you It will be the second song to be released from her upcoming album — her debut — Wishing We Could Dream. More singles from the album are coming. The finished project, with 11 tracks, will drop early next year. The music video for “The Shower” will be released August 19. “I had some fun with the music video, too, like, stuff you do post breakup. You know, eating ice cream. Or just crying. But making it kind of fun instead of depressing and sad. I wanted it to be upbeat, musically, and I feel like we did, me and my producer, Megan McCormick.” With the two singles from the album out this year, she is resuming a career path she started with the release of a five-track EP, A Sea of Darkness, in 2020. The pandemic and completing her degree in music interrupted. “The pandemic did hit right as I was releasing my EP, and then I was in school up until 2022 getting my bachelor’s in music for vocal performance. That was my degree for opera.” Her post-college work as an operatic soprano includes performances of Puccini and Verdi in Italy and singing in master classes and coaching work. She has sung baroque-, classical-, romantic- and modern-era roles. But her road to 2024 and the beginnings of a serious music career began with a diagnosis of scoliosis at age 9 and surgery to correct it at 10. The titanium rods permanently in her back and a long, painful recovery ruled out the sports and physical activity she had loved. Music became, as she says in her bio, the only thing she could rely on. And, in another twist, she grew up in the funeral home owned by her parents, who also owned a cemetery. “Although some people might think it’s very depressing to grow up around that, I feel like I have tried to appreciate life because I understand how short life is. And although I do like the darkness of some of my songs, I try to highlight a lightness or a playfulness, like in ‘The Shower.’” Then there is the fact that, around the house, Papa sang Frank Sinatra and Mama loved Elvis. “I think of myself as an old soul,” she said. “I really love the older music, and I try to incorporate some of that stuff and some of that writing...