Biography
Who is Mitski?
Early life and real name
Mitsuki Laycock Miyawaki was born on September 27, 1990. She was born in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Her mother is Japanese and her father is a White American. Her mother traveled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Japan to ensure Mitski became a Japanese citizen. She almost gave birth while flying. She has one younger sister.
Mitski grew up moving often because of her father's job with the United States Department of State. She lived in 13 different countries. She changed schools almost every year. Her first language was Japanese.
Education and starting music
She arrived in the United States at age 15. She attended high school in Virginia and Alabama. She finished high school in Ankara, Turkey, one semester early. She began writing songs at 17 or 18. Her first song was titled Bag of Bones.
In 2010, she moved to New York. She studied film at Hunter College for one year. She left that program because she saw a lack of creative jobs in the field. She then transferred to Purchase College's Conservatory of Music to study studio composition.
Career and album releases
She released her second album, Retired from Sad, New Career in Business, on August 1, 2013. This project featured a 60-person student orchestra. After graduation, she moved to Brooklyn and learned to play guitar. She also sang for a metal band called Voice Coils.
Her third album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, came out in 2014 through Double Double Whammy. In 2015, she signed a deal with Dead Oceans. This led to the 2016 release of Puberty 2, which featured the song Your Best American Girl. She performed this song on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Recent work and achievements
In 2022, she co-wrote the song This Is a Life with Son Lux. This track was for the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. The song earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
She released the album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We in 2023. The single My Love Mine All Mine became her first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100. She also released the album Nothing's About to Happen to Me on February 27, 2026.
Birthday and age
Mitski was born on September 27, 1990, which makes Mitski 36 years old today. That birthday falls under the Libra sign. Mitski shares the date with 37 other famous people.
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