MIRIAM

Miriam
Miriam is the third installment in the Vocaloid1 series and was released by Zero-G Limited on July 20, 2004. Her voice is based off the popular British singer Miriam Stockley who is also the lead singer of the band Adiemus. Miriam is used more for serious songs.

History
Miriam quite surpassed her prior vocaloid counterparts, Lola and Leon, in programing. Improved functionalities were implemented into her lessening the time for a vocaloid user to produce a more realistic sound. Yamaha mentioned on their website that Miriam's quality of synthesise was much better, but despite this Miriam didn't catch on with the main vocaloid audience.

Fan Dipiction
One main reason the English vocaloids are not as popular with the public as their Japanese couterparts is because they, with the exception of Sonika, do not have their own established character image and so have to depend on fanart to give them a commonly used fan depiction. Mainly because of the silver coloring of her boxart Miriam is portrayed with silver, blonde, or white hair. She, being the third released of the English vocaloids, and Miku,being the third released of the Japanese version of the Vocaloid program, Miriam is then thought of as the English version of Miku. This is the reason she is usually shown in fanart with green clothing. Miriam is used in a variety of different genres of music which is why she is portrayed to have multiple different personalities. Miriam can be serious, shy, or an air head. One of the few lesser known additions of her fan image is her character item. On Miriam Stockley's webpage a tube of lipstick will pop up on the screen upon entering the site and it will write out Miriam's name. for this reason her character item is thought of as lipstick.

Miriam has multiple relationships with her fellow vocaloids. She is sometimes thought of as being Vocaloid Leon's lover and in some other cases as only a friend. In more popular circumtances she is commonly assumed to think of Meiko as a friend, older sister, or girlfriend based on the many videos that these two are featured in together.