Thu 10/19 @ 7:30PM
Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Michelle Zauner started her indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast ten years ago as a side project while she was playing with the Philadelphia-based Little Big League. She wrote and recorded her debut album under that name, 2016’s Psychopop, while caring for her mother during her final illness and following her death.
That album did well and led to a record contract, two more albums, nominations for Best New Artist and Best Aletrnative Music Album (for 2021’s Jubilee) at the 2022 Grammies. It’s also led to other projects including composing a game soundtrack and a memoir called Crying in H Mart, which was on the New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list for 60 weeks; she’s slated to write the soundtrack for a film based on the book. She’s actually of Korean decent, not Japanese.
Zauner will be in Cleveland to talk about her work as park of the Writers Center Stage series, taking place at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle. Get tickets here.
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