Mimi Parker performing in 2012 in Seattle, Wash.

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Mimi Parker performing in 2012 in Seattle, Wash.

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Mimi Parker, recognized for her chilling vocals and sparse drumming within the critically acclaimed rock band Low, died on Saturday. She was identified with ovarian most cancers in 2020.

“Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message,” the band’s official Twitter account posted on Sunday morning. “She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.”

Formed in 1993 by Parker and her husband Alan Sparhawk in Duluth, Minn., Low emerged as an important group in what would come to be outlined as the last decade’s slowcore motion. Known for its superbly easy, droning and darkish instrumentals, the band was anchored by the fragile vocal harmonies of its central couple, which might reduce by way of even the harshest noise. “I’ve been pushing towards the beauty and I know Alan sometimes focuses on the chaos,” Parker stated of the band’s music in a 2021 interview with All Things Considered.

Born and raised in Minnesota, in an interview with the journal Chickfactor Parker stated she grew up in a musical household, to a mom who was an aspiring nation singer. “My role was always to come up with harmonies, because she and my sister would usually sing the lead,” she told Terry Gross in a 2005 interview with Fresh Air of creating music early along with her household. “From the beginning I learned how to just listen and draw and come up with harmonies.”

Parker first performed drums in her highschool marching band. Both working towards Mormons, she and Sparhawk first met in fourth grade and started relationship after they had been in junior highschool. Years later the 2 would marry, and finally type Low with unique bass participant John Nichols. “Honestly, if it hadn’t been for the marriage, for the family … we never would have survived this long as a band,” Parker, who shares two kids with Sparhawk, advised NPR in 2021.

The band’s debut I Could Live in Hope was launched in 1994 to crucial acclaim, and Low would go on to launch 13 albums in 27 years. The band signed with the influential label Sub Pop in 2004, and its dynamic sound continued to develop with releases akin to 2018’s Double Negative, described in NPR Music’s Best Albums of 2018 record as “a collection of crackling transmissions sent across the din, hopeful voices rising out of the craggy darkness.” The band’s final album with Parker was 2021’s celebrated HEY WHAT.

In August the band canceled a sequence of exhibits in Europe to accommodate Parker’s most cancers therapies, later announcing in October that it was canceling a European tour totally. “There have been difficult days, but your love has sustained us and will continue to lift us through this time,” Sparhawk wrote in a press release on the time.

In a 2022 episode of the Sheroes Radio podcast, Parker revealed that she had been identified with ovarian most cancers in December 2020. “I think it’s important to — when people get a diagnosis — some people have a tendency to ask why, why me,” Parker stated. “I never had that. It was always, why not? We’re all subject to whatever random this and that happens. … So that has just changed my perspective completely.”

“Our time can be cut short and what do we do with that time that we have,” she continued. “We try to make each day mean something.”