Madeline Johnston

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Madeline Johnston
Birth nameMadeline Elizabeth Johnston
Origin Denver, Colorado
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Labels The Flenser
Website heavenmetal.bandcamp.com

Madeline Elizabeth Johnston [1] is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and audio engineer. She is best known for her work under the moniker Midwife, and has also released music as Mariposa and Sister Grotto. Her debut album, as Mariposa, was titled Holy Ghost and released in 2013. [2] As Sister Grotto, Johnston released You Don't Have to Be a House to Be Haunted, [3] Blindside, [4] and Song For An Unborn Sun (alongside Devin Shaffer as Yarrow) in 2016. [5] These were followed a year later by Like Author, Like Daughter as Midwife, in collaboration with Tucker Theodore. [3] [6] [7] Her next two albums as Midwife were Forever (2020) [8] [9] and Luminol (2021). [10] [11] As Midwife, she would later release Orbweaving (2023) a collaborative LP with Vyva Melinkolya (Angel Diaz). She would also go on to feature on the second single from Vyva Melinkolya’s album Unbecoming (2023), titled Doomer GF Song

Johnston describes her music as "heaven metal". [11]

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