Japanese American Internment - References in Music

References in Music

Fort Minor's release The Rising Tied contains a track entitled Kenji, which relates the tale of a Japanese-American family's experience during the internment period. Lead singer Mike Shinoda's paternal grandparents were interned during World War II, along with his father (as an infant). Shinoda is a third generation Japanese American, and his father is Nisei.

Folk/country musician Tom Russell wrote "Manzanar", a song about the Japanese American internment, that was released on his album Box of Visions (1993).

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