Miho Hatori

Miho Hatori (b. April 5; Tokyo, Japan) is a singer and songwriter, primarily known as the vocalist of the New York City outfit, Cibo Matto. Miho expressed an early interest in music while growing up in Japa

Miho Hatori (b. April 5; Tokyo, Japan) is a singer and songwriter, primarily known as the vocalist of the New York City outfit, Cibo Matto. Miho expressed an early interest in music while growing up in Japan. She worked in a record shop where she was exposed to many different styles of music, and sometimes performed as a club DJ. She also had some minor success in Tokyo rapping in a band named Kimidori.

Miho moved to the United States, New York sometime around 1993 to study at an English school; She also continued her infrequent work as a DJ. The first New York band she was in was a Punk band named Leitoh Lychee for which she provided the vocals, and also played violin through a distortion effects pedal. It was in Leitoh Lychee where she first met her Cibo Matto co-founder Yuka Honda in 1994.