![]() "She played that song, and he took his last breath," Aiko says. Right before Miyagi died, Aiko’s now-manager - whom she refers to as a "sister" - played the song she had written for him, titled "For My Brother," for the first time. Jhene Aiko/Instagram Jhené Aiko and her brother Miyagi I was so used to recording while she's asleep, that's my style now." I'd put on something for Namiko to watch, Yo Gabba Gabba!, and then I would turn it down and I would be on my computer, singing quietly. "At the time, I was renting a room from my friend’s mom’s house. "I started going on GarageBand and making little songs for MySpace," she says. When Namiko was around 2 months old, Aiko returned to music. “I had to wake up and feed her, and I had to work.” RELATED: Singer Jhené Aiko Opens Up About Her Ongoing Battle with Depression in Her New Poetry Book 2FishĪiko snapped out of her old ways for a time when she welcomed her daughter, Namiko (with her ex-boyfriend, singer O’Ryan, 33), in 2008 at the age of 20. If I’m feeling sad or angry, I just want to sleep.” "I'm super small, and things affect me right away. "Around 16 and 17, I was experimenting with different things, weed and drinking," she continues. I was sad one day, and I took too many Tylenol PMs. "Obviously, it wasn't a serious relationship, to me it was because it was my first relationship. “I had a little boyfriend, and he was a little bit older than me, so he was more mature," she says.
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