In 2018, it was revealed during E3 2018 that Japanese Breakfast would provide the soundtrack for the indie video game Sable. In contrast to the previous two Japanese Breakfast albums, Jubilee was described as being about joy. Japanese Breakfast's third studio album, Jubilee, was released by Dead Oceans on June 4, 2021. On July 14, 2017, Japanese Breakfast released its second studio album, Soft Sounds from Another Planet. On June 23, 2016, it was announced Japanese Breakfast had been signed to Dead Oceans. On April 1, 2016, Japanese Breakfast released its first studio album, Psychopomp, under Yellow K Records. While in Oregon with her family, Zauner continued recording as Japanese Breakfast. Zauner performing on The Boaty Weekender in 2019 She waited tables while trying to get her music career off the ground. At Bryn Mawr, Zauner fronted Post Post, an indie pop band with other students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Music career 2005–2011: Early projects Īround 2005, Zauner first played under the moniker Little Girl, Big Spoon.
Zauner attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing. Her parents moved there when Zauner was nine months old. Her mother was Korean and her father is Jewish-American. Michelle Chongmi Zauner was born on March 29, 1989, in Seoul, South Korea to Chongmi and Joel Zauner.
