Mia Dyson - Tender Heart (2024)

Mia Dyson Returns After Harrowing Near-Death Experience With Triumphant Celebration Of Renewed Life On "Tender Heart" - New Album From Australia’s “Soulful Wonder” (Rolling Stone).
Mia Dyson had just started working on her new album the night her heart stopped. In the aftermath of an earthquake that rattled her Los Angeles home, Dyson experienced an undiagnosed arrhythmia which caused her to suddenly and unexpectedly stop breathing. As she recalls it, she was somewhere else entirely in the fateful moments that followed - a place of “darkness and nothingness” - while her husband and songwriting partner Karl Linder remembers finding Dyson hunched against the wall of their bedroom with "lifeless eyes that almost looked wooden." Thanks to Karl’s quick response, Mia was rushed to the hospital in just enough time to save her life, had a defibrillator implanted and was left to take stock of such a close call.

Already long renowned as a songwriter and performer - tapped to open for Stevie Nicks and Bonnie Raitt in years prior - Dyson returned to this new project with a deep sense of perspective and an open-hearted embrace of all that was almost lost. The result is Tender Heart (out February 23), a fittingly-titled collection of ten songs that stand tall as life-affirming, grippingly honest and unapologetically joyful all at once.