Japanese Breakfast

This article is about the band. For the meal, see Japanese breakfast.

Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner performing at the Day In Day Out Festival in Seattle, Washington, 2022
Background information
OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Years active2013–present
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Members
Past members
Websitejapanesebreakfast.rocks Edit this at Wikidata

Japanese Breakfast is an American indie pop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania formed in 2013. The project is fronted by vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter Michelle Zauner, alongside Peter Bradley (guitar), Deven Craige (bass) and Craig Hendrix (drums, keyboards, backing vocals).

Zauner started the band as a side project in 2013, when she was leading the Philadelphia-based emo group Little Big League. She has said that she named the band after seeing a GIF of Japanese breakfast[1] and because she thought the term would be "exotic" to Americans and thought it would make others wonder what a Japanese breakfast consists of.[2]

In 2014, she returned to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, to care for her ailing mother. She continued to record music and songs, first to cope with stress, then, after her mother died, with grief. The songs eventually became Japanese Breakfast's debut studio album: Psychopomp (2016), released by Yellow K Records. Its critical and commercial success led Japanese Breakfast to sign with the record label Dead Oceans, which released the band's second and third studio albums: Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017) and Jubilee (2021). Jubilee was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Japanese Breakfast for Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards[3] and became the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at 56.[4]

  1. ^ "Fine Ingredients with Kogonada & Michelle Zauner". a24films.com. March 30, 2022. Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  2. ^ "Japanese Breakfast on Grief, Imposter Syndrome, and Korean Representation". Teen Vogue. July 14, 2017. Archived from the original on July 9, 2022. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Nominations List". Grammys.com. November 23, 2021. Archived from the original on November 25, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  4. ^ "Japanese Breakfast Billboard 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 28, 2022.