Mikiko Miyakawa

In the artist’s words: Describe one of your earliest musical memories in detail. My earliest memory is a small, house-shaped music box playing “Home, Sweet Home.” I remember feeling, very quietly, that the world was a beautiful place. What are your top 3 all-time favorite albums on Apple Music, and why? Why did you choose these three albums in particular? Amy Winehouse, Back to Black Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron, Left Alone Revisited T. Rex, The Slider The original Left Alone shaped how I hear space and silence, and the later re-recording showed me he was still searching. T. Rex deeply shaped my sense of rhythm and groove, and Amy Winehouse changed how freely I express emotion. Find a song of yours on Apple Music that you love and tell us what makes it special. Tell us why you chose this song. “Elegy in Violet” It came to me almost all at once. The evening before I received difficult news about my father, I remember a soft, fading violet sunset. There was a quiet sense that something had already begun to change.