Singer-songwriter mikah, through his music, shares the journey of his heart. With the final chapters of his Homesick trilogy, In Between and Dream, mikah completes a very personal story about belonging and the art of finding “home” when the map keeps changing.

Born and raised in Hawaii, mikah has lived a life full of emotional experiences. From leaving his island home as a teenager to chasing his dreams in Tokyo and later China, his music has always carried something special. The Homesick trilogy feels like a diary: honest and brave enough to admit that leaving is exciting… and terrifying at the same time.

The journey began in October with Escape, a song that depicts the very first step, that moment when your feet move forward, but your heart is still looking back. It describes the internal tug-of-war between ambition and attachment, telling the story of a young artist reaching for something greater while refusing to lose the roots that built him. Now, with In Between and Dream (released on November 18), mikah shares the middle and final emotional chapters of this trilogy.

In Between feels like riding a train with no clear destination, and somehow, that’s the beauty of it. Wrapped in warm, acoustic, and subtly country-inspired sounds, the track feels comforting on the surface, while lyrically revealing a much more fragile reality. Lines like “It’s just me and my suitcase” hit hard, painting the image of someone suspended between who they were and who they might become. Sonically, it’s a new territory for mikah, and he wears it effortlessly, proving that emotional honesty matters more than genre itself.

Then comes Dream, the emotional resolution, not dramatic, not overly loud, but simply powerful. This track doesn’t promise a perfect future. In fact, it admits the opposite. As mikah himself says:
Dream changes the meaning of “home” not as a place you return to, but as something you build inside yourself. It is the most pop-driven and uplifting song in the trilogy. The repeated line “Dreaming feels like home” doesn’t feel like fantasy: it feels like survival, like comfort, like a victory.

A perfect future may not exist in reality; that’s why we can only see it in our dreams.

Visually, the story comes full circle through the Dream music video, created by a French creative team and filmed entirely in Tokyo. Much like Escape, the video is minimal and cinematic. Scenes of mikah standing alone in Shibuya Crossing, riding trains and taxis through the city, and drifting through twilight-lit streets capture a man suspended between worlds, and slowly understanding that being lost is sometimes part of being found. It’s not about returning to a physical place, but returning to yourself.

mikah’s own journey makes this trilogy feel even more real. After debuting as a member of INTERSECTION in Japan, rising to massive popularity through China’s CHUANG 2021, and becoming part of the global project group INTO1, he could have easily stayed in the safety of idol success. Instead, he chose vulnerability.

Since launching his solo career with his 2023 EP bleached and 2024’s Pretty Lies, mikah has grown into a global artist. His performances at SUMMER SONIC Tokyo and Meta Moon Festival in Dubai, and the viral success of “so I don’t forget,” show that his voice is not only beautiful, it’s needed.

And now, in 2025, with an upcoming 88rising collaboration, it feels like mikah is stepping into his next chapter not as someone running from home, but as someone who finally understands where it lives. The Homesick trilogy, Escape, In Between, and Dream, is a soft, honest confession: sometimes you have to leave everything behind to understand what was inside you all along.

And somehow, mikah makes that heartbreak sound like hope.

Featured image courtesy of Pierre Boissel & Mathias Ponard / Art Direction: Lara Damiens

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