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Mish Barber-Way
Barber-Way performing with White Lung in South by Southwest, 2013Barber-Way performing with White Lung in South by Southwest, 2013
Background information
Birth nameMish Way
Born (1985-07-15) 15 July 1985 (age 39)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • writer
  • journalist
  • editor
Years active2006–present
SpouseAustin Barber (m. 2015)
Websitemishway.com
Musical artist

Mish Barber-Way (born 15 July 1985) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and writer. She founded the band White Lung in 2006 and served as its vocalist until the band's breakup in 2022.

Early life

Barber-Way was born on 15 July 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a child, she competed in figure skating before focusing on music and writing. In university, Barber-Way originally studied writing before switching to programs in philosophy and gender studies. During her post-secondary education, she worked as an intern for Vancouver Magazine and Hearty. During her teens, she worked as a dry cleaner.

Career

Barber-Way started playing music in her former boyfriend's band before co-forming White Lung in 2006. While singing in White Lung, Barber-Way wrote articles for various media sources including Vice Media, Talkhouse, Hustler, The Guardian, i-D, Dazed, Los Angeles Times, V, among others. She is also the executive editor at Penthouse, as well as the music editor for BriteLite magazine. In 2016, Barber-Way performed a cover of "Used to Love Her" by Guns N' Roses. In 2021, she sang on The Bloody Beetroots's song "Radium Girls".

Personal life

Barber-Way is married to Austin Barber of American rock band Saviours, and they live in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California with their children. In prior albums with White Lung, Barber-Way incorporated songs about her personal experience with body dysmorphia and addiction.

References

  1. @whitelungofficial (15 July 2018). "Happy Birthday Mish!". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  2. Barber-Way, Mish (29 July 2011). "All I got for my 26th birthday was adult acne" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 July 2018 – via Twitter.
  3. Brown, August (6 July 2016). "Mish Barber-Way is one of the most compelling frontwomen in today's punk era: 'she isn't afraid of anything'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Meet Mish Barber-Way of White Lung, Penthouse and Mish Barber-Way". VoyageLA. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. Betker, Ally (26 July 2016). "White Lung's Mish Barber-Way is Not Too Impressed with Feminism's Social Media Generation". W Magazine. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  6. Lanham, Tom (11 August 2016). "White Lung's Mish Barber-Way: punk pro, edgy journalist". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  7. Keast, James (3 May 2016). "White Lung's Mish Way The Exclaim! Questionnaire". Exclaim!. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  8. ^ Claymore, Gabriela Tully. "I'll Be Fine When I Go Under". Stereogum. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Biography – Mish Barber-Way". mishway.com. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  10. Rettig, James. "Hear White Lung's Mish Barber-Way Cover Guns N' Roses' "Used To Love Her"". Stereogum. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  11. Blisten, Jon (June 4, 2021). "Tom Morello. Bloody Beetroots Tease New Ep With 'Radium Girls'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  12. Thompson, Bronwyn (1 February 2017). "White Lung's Mish Barber-Way: 'I've come to terms with the world. I'm not walking around pissed off anymore.'". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

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