Charlotte Kemp Muhl (born August 17, 1987), also known as Kemp Muhl, is an American musician, writer, model and director from Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known as a model for Maybelline.
Muhl has been in a relationship with Sean Ono Lennon since 2007 and performs with him in the musical duo the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. She is also the bassist and band leader for the group Uni and the Urchins, which released their debut album in January 2023.[2][3]
Career
Music
Muhl is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, bass, keyboard, and the accordion. Muhl has stated that she uses funds earned from her modeling career to produce her music.[4] Muhl and Sean Ono Lennon formed the record company Chimera Music.[5]
In 2017, Muhl founded the band Uni, currently[when?] including vocalist Jack James and guitarist David Strange.[6] On November 17, 2017, with their original vocalist Nico, they released their debut 7" single "What's the Problem" b/w "Adult Video".[7] Both songs on the single had a music video, directed by Muhl, produced for them. "Mushroom Cloud", their second 7" single, was released March 23, 2018, with a video debuted on Rolling Stone.[8]
In 2024, Muhl was the bassist in St. Vincent's touring live band supporting the release of her seventh album All Born Screaming.[9]
Muhl met Sean Ono Lennon at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival[15] in 2005, when she was seventeen, and the two have been in a relationship since 2007. In an interview, Ono Lennon stated that he discovered Muhl was musically talented over a year after they had started dating.[16] Muhl and Ono Lennon work together in a number of musical endeavours,[17] and much of their work is written at their own home-based studio in Greenwich Village.
