Low

Bio

Low was a Duluth band formed in early 1993 by Alan Sparhawk and his wife Mimi Parker. Sparhawk had been in the Superior, Wisconsin band Zen Identity. Parker played a small kit with brushes: one snare, one cymbal, and one floor tom. The band stayed a trio until 2020, with four different bassists. They stopped in 2022 after Parker died. Sparhawk and Parker met as kids in Clearbrook, Minnesota, and he had moved from Seattle to Minnesota when he was nine.

The band

• Alan Sparhawk

  Alan Sparhawk sang and played guitar in Low. He grew up in Clearbrook, Minnesota, after moving from Seattle at nine, and had played in the Superior band Zen Identity before starting Low with Mimi Parker in 1993.

• Mimi Parker

  Mimi Parker sang and played drums in Low from 1993 until she died in 2022. She used brushes on a kit of one snare, one cymbal, and one floor tom. She and Alan Sparhawk met in grade school in Clearbrook, Minnesota.