Mike Kota

Mike Kota, a Minneapolis musician who's emerging as a solo artist. her band Good Luck Finding Iris is on hiatus.

“My name is Mike Kota. My start in music was probably when I was young; my parents put me on piano lessons, but I hated that. But I still messed with the piano and the guitar around the house. Every so often I would learn something, or my world would be opened to a new artist. I had some friends in high school that made music and got me really inspired, as well as that envious, jealous side of it when you see your friends excelling at something that you also love. It fuels you.

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I don’t know how I would describe my music. If anybody knows, let me know. I take inspiration from people like Dev Hynes, he doesn't need to fit himself into a label because he has his foot in so many different realms. Not just genres, but also scoring, composing and stuff. To [label myself] would be a disservice... There are just different emotions that need to get out or different ideas. It's nice to not hold yourself to a specific thing and try to recreate that if one thing works for you. Leaning into that limitless, abundant feeling.“

Write-up excerpt taken from the Current blog post on September 24, 2021:
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/09/24/meet-mike-kota-a-minneapolis-artist-striving-for-that-limitless-abundant-feeling