Low’s Mimi Parker has died

Parker was a member of Low for thirteen albums.

Mimi Parker, the drummer and vocalist of Low, has died, aged 55.

Parker, who was a core member of Low since the band’s inception in 1993, had been living with ovarian cancer since 2020.

In a statement on their Twitter account, Low said;

Born in Minnesota, Parker met her future bandmate and husband Alan Sparhawk in grade school. Stemming from a project called Zen Identity, Low released their debut album, I Could Live In Hope, in 1994. Pioneers of the slowcore genre, Low recorded thirteen albums with Parker, including 2018’s critically acclaimed Double Negative and their most recent album Hey What, in 2021.