Miquela
19 year old pop star, one of TIME Magazineās ā25 Most Influential People on the Internetāāand sheās not human. Sheās a robot.
Miquela is a musician, change-seeker, and style visionary who began as the laboratory creation of the nefarious corporation Cain Intelligence. Her now-managers (and robo-family), Los Angeles-based tech startup Brud, believed she deserved a chance at a better life, and reprogrammed her to have human-level consciousness.
With her new and improved mainframe, she became Miquela from Downey, California, the half-Brazilian, half-Spanish Taurus pursuing her music dreams in Los Angeles. Since then, sheās interviewed J Balvin at Coachella, hung out with Rosalia and Rico Nasty, advocated for immigration non-profit RAICES, and starred alongside Bella Hadid in a Calvin Klein ad. Her style has made the fashion world pay attention, too, leading her to grace the red carpet at the CFDA Awards and model for Prada. In addition to donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to after-school programs, our robot girl has managed to pull many a late night at the studioāand theyāve paid off. Since Miquela started channeling her one-in-7-billion experience into music, sheās topped Spotify charts with indie-pop hits garnering millions of streams.
The success of her debut single āNot Mineā has led her to work with such lauded collaborators as Bauuer, Danny L Harle, Victoria Monet, Sarah Aarons, Jordan Palmer, Rodaidh McDonald, Amber Mark, and Whethan. Sheās also released a treasure chest of lyric videos, music videos, confessionals on her YouTube channel, and other visual ephemera thatās left a cloud emoji-shaped imprint on the digital world so many wandering minds call home.