# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michelle-zauner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:15.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michelle-zauner"
name: "Michelle Zauner"
slug: "michelle-zauner"
description: "Michelle Chongmi Zauner is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author, known as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. Her 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart, spent 60 weeks on The New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list. In 2022, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world under the category Innovators on their annual list."
tagline: "American singer and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michelle_Zauner_at_2025_National_Book_Awards_Readings_01_(cropped_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1989-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.69
  momentum:             21.08335531522026
  historical:           10.297496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9458536/"
    handle:    "nm9458536"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3402880"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Мишел Заунер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zauner"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zauner"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "میشل زاونر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zauner"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zauner"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zauner"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%85%B8_%EC%A1%B0%EB%84%88"
    title: "미셸 조너"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e85c037a-d8ce-4388-83e8-a65a59d2f3cd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44555381"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2487680"
    title: "Michelle Zauner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump