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Marin Ishida

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Born & raised in Yokohama, Japan, Marin was enrolled in an international school at age 6, where she learned to speak English fluently. At 7, she started learning the violin and continued to be greatly influenced by the string quartets and violin solos of Bartok, Vivaldi, Corelli, and Ravel. She started songwriting and production during her time at Berklee College of Music, where she majored in Contemporary Writing and Production. Inside and outside the classrooms were a plethora of musical genres for Marin to discover. She especially enjoyed the fusion ensembles that focused on music from Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India, Argentina, Brazil, and many other countries. 

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Marin says that songwriting truly became the center of her music career when she saw Mitski, a Japanese American artist, perform at the House of Blues in Boston. At that moment, she realized she was unconsciously holding herself back from wanting to express herself through song because of the lack of Asian women being represented in pop music. She went home that night and finished writing her "first song that (she'd) been proud of" called "Blue". 

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Marin wrote and produced songs for local bands and artists while writing songs that were for only her. However, during the quarantine period of 2020, she realized how much she missed performing in live venues, and made the decision to release her first album, "Registered Myth", which contained many confessional songs that were written in her darkest yet most fantastical moments of being a young adult in a foreign country. Since her album release in 2021, she has been regularly performing live in Tokyo and Yokohama, where she sings about the hardships of trying to break free from the expectations and double standards of gender and race. Marin hopes to continue to reach people who also feel out of place and create a space for them to feel most like their natural, unique selves.