Michelle Zauner
Musician and memoir author
Michelle Zauner is an American musician and author who fronts the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. She wrote the memoir Crying in H Mart.
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American Born 1989 in Seoul, South Korea
About Michelle Zauner
Michelle Zauner is an American musician, singer, songwriter and author. She sings lead for the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, the name she has recorded under since 2013. Earlier she was a member of the Philadelphia emo band Little Big League, which put out two albums. Her memoir Crying in H Mart came out in 2021 and stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for hardcover non-fiction for 60 weeks. In 2022 Time included her in its list of the 100 most influential people, in the Innovators category. Her essays have appeared in Glamour, The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. She also wrote the soundtrack for the 2021 video game Sable.