Indie rock singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Kishi Bashi was born
Kaoru Ishibashi in Seattle, Washington on November 4, 1975. Born to Japanese
parents, his family moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where he grew up. His musical
journey began in 1994 when he formed the band Tamarisk while attending Cornell
University of Engineering in Ithaca, New York. However, he flunked out of
Cornell and then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied
film scoring before becoming a violinist. While based in Brooklyn, New York, he
co-founded indie electropop outfit Jupite...