Mimi Fox is an American jazz guitarist and educator, known internationally for her work.
Fox's mother was a jazz singer and her father owned a large record collection that she heard from an early age.
Her professional career began at the age of seventeen when she performed in the lounge of a Chinese restaurant.
[2] In the late 1970s, she moved to California and took lessons from guitarist Bruce Forman, which she has called the turning point in her career.
[3] She has worked with guitarists Charlie Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, and Martin Taylor[4] and with Joey DeFrancesco, Branford Marsalis, Houston Person, David Sanchez, and Lonnie Smith.