Photo: Todd Dominey from Decatur, USA / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What I admire about Ariel Pink is his refusal to make things sound clean. Raised in Los Angeles and steeped in the pop of the 1960s through 1980s, he rebuilt that nostalgia in deliberately lo-fi, home-recorded haze, and that dustiness somehow made the songs more haunting. He is genuinely a strange, hard-to-pin-down artist, and I think that is exactly why so many indie musicians of the late 2000s ended up chasing his shadow. To me he is less a hitmaker than a quiet influence whose fingerprints turn up everywhere once you learn to listen for them.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ariel Pink
- Name (Japanese)
- アリエル・ピンク
- Reading
- ありえる・ぴんく
- Born
- June 24, 1978 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Horse
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- musician / composer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Beverly Hills High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Ariel Pink born?
Born June 24, 1978 (age 48).
Where is Ariel Pink from?
Ariel Pink is from Los Angeles, California, United States.
What does Ariel Pink do?
Ariel Pink works as musician, composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, singer.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-19
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.