Japanese Breakfast
![Frontwoman Michelle Zauner performing at the Day In Day Out Festival in [[Seattle]], 2022](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Japanese_Breakfast_at_Day_In_Day_Out_Festival_02.jpg)
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 animation of Japanese breakfast. She thought the term would be "exotic" to Americans and that it would make others wonder what a "Japanese breakfast" consists of.
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 and became the band's first album to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200, where it peaked at 56. Provided by Wikipedia