Okabe biography

I’ve heard you’d love to collaborate with Mark Ronson.

You have a harmonious voice; I wonder if it is an inherent quality or if you took endless singing lessons in the past.

I have always loved to sing! I still love to listen to and explore new sounds and music.

Your debut record Better Days came out last August, almost a year after your first single I’m Done.

How did you experience this first year of actively releasing music and working on your debut album?

That past year [2021] was really busy but so much fun.

Today, she is an artist from head to toe, "I just focus on making and playing music which is all I want to do!", she says.

How long have you been in contact with music? Whenever I feel like I can’t put my feelings into words, I pick up my guitar and sing about them instead of trying to make sense of them in my head.

When I was about 17 years old, I started working with producers, and it did take me some time to figure out how I wanted my songs to sound with production. Mina Okabe is just 21 years old, but she clearly knows how to use melody to understand and act out her most personal feelings. When I first started making my own songs at around 16 years old it was very hard for me to show my songs to others because of how personal they were.

The whole world has been her playground and a source of inspiration for her music. Since my songs are often about things I am sad or frustrated about, I sometimes like to add upbeat production to these lyrics to make the situations a little easier for myself.

You said, ”I write all my songs about personal experiences and feelings.

Often, when I am in the studio, I play a song to the producer that I have made on my guitar and then we work on a production from there. The responses I have been getting on the album mean so much to me and make me very happy.

Mina Okabe is a new, exciting talent in the Danish music scene. I now feel I have found some amazing producers who really understand my style.

So the songs on Better Days are reflections of some of my thoughts and frustrations before turning 21.

I’ve noticed you are deeply involved in your music, in fact, you wrote all the tracks from Better Days. The album has spawned several hits, including "I'm Done" and "Walk Away".

In a matter of short time, Mina Okabe has played her way into the premiere league of Danish pop music.

I have also been lucky to be able to play my first live shows this year, and I played my first sold-out headliner show in Copenhagen!

Mina has lived in Denmark for the past five years. This Danish-Japanese singer-songwriter was born in London, then lived in New York and Manila, before moving to Denmark when she was 15 years old. Could you reveal a bit more about this goal?

Mark Ronson is just super good at what he does, and I love the music and sound he created with Amy Winehouse.