Thirteen13

, real name Utashiro Nina (歌代ニーナ), is a Japanese Hip-Hop artist, lyricist, creative director and editor/writer. Her music project has the goal to challenge the conformity of Japanese life.

Profile

 * She is half Japanese, half German, with a Japanese mother and a German father.
 * She was raised in New York and Tokyo.
 * In middle school, she was drawn to metal, partly in opposition to the hypocrisy she saw in her father’s extremist Catholic side of the family.
 * After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Manhattan, where she went to a public high school at 16.
 * She graduated high school early and went on to study art history at Columbia University where she began her exploration of fashion.
 * She returned to Tokyo at age 21.
 * She founded (in March 2018) and leads "PETRICHOR", an independent magazine/creative collective based in Tokyo. She describes it as "A place for her to voice her message with no rules since anything controversial is taboo in Japanese media". Prior to that, she was working as an editor for i-D Japan.
 * She uses her music to highlight the western side of her upbringing that is typically shunned by Japanese society. With tattoos, provocative language and self-expression still very much a taboo over there, she’s developed a ‘birds eye view’ perspective on Japanese life as an outsider – using shocking and outlandish images to make a statement.
 * Although fluent in English, rapping in Japanese is important to her, as it allows her to convey a message to the people who need to hear it.
 * In her music videos, she combines horrorcore rap together with cinematic visuals and couture fashion.
 * Her Thirteen13 persona is demonic and purposely antagonistic towards the church.

EPs

 * 1) [2018.xx.xx] OMNIPRESENT
 * 2) [2019.xx.xx] MOUTH

Digital Singles

 * 1) [2019.xx.xx] blue
 * 2) [2019.xx.xx] Alarm
 * 3) [2019.xx.xx] BLOOD