Sumi

SUMI is a Japanese singer-songwriter based in NY/CA.
Born and raised in Japan, Sumi was immersed in music since she was a child as she learned to play the piano and flute. Her mother was an opera singer and piano teacher. She thought she was going to attend the conservatory of music in Japan but in 2002, when she graduated from a high school where she made friends from overseas and got to experience different cultures, she decided to come to the US instead.

After graduating from University of Buffalo in 2008, she moved to NYC and began working in the fashion industry with NY collection designer yet working on her music after work. In 2014, she began to release her music which got featured in Japan Times, and to perform in NYC at Pianos, Cameo Gallery, Rockwood Music Hall, and Studio at Webster Hall.

In 2017, she was introduced to a songwriting coach, Billy Seidman at BMI who was teaching songwriting to artists like Bebe Rexha and Rachel Platten. Immediately after, she started to take songwriting lessons with him and they co-wrote some of her songs together. During the summer of 2018, she released her new pop/synth pop songs: SPACEY LOVE, BULLSHIT DETECTOR, and NOMADIC LIFE which got featured in Hype Magazine, Happy Mag, Vents, and SheBOPS etc.Currently she is working on her next project in SF/LA and her tour in the US. visit https://www.sumimusic.net/
米国在住シンガーソングライター。千葉県出身、2004年NYへ単身渡米。大学卒業後、NYのファッション業界へ就職。音楽のキャリアと両立しながらNY在住プロデューサーと共同制作を開始。NYでリリース、パフォーマンスを行う。現在CA在住。