Artist Biography

Mia Rodriguez
By Alyssa Christen

In this day in age, content creation is at an all-time high with participation from a large

mass of the population especially within Gen Z. A new and up and coming artist with a creative

yet recognizable vibe within her music, Mia Rodriguez is an Australian singer-songwriter who

kickstarted her career on the relatively new and extremely popular social media app, Tik Tok.

Mia began her career by posting videos on Tik Tok of her performing covers and other creative

content (dancing, singing, etc.) in 2019. She commenced her journey of creating her own music

in 2019 and has gained a large following (2 million) on Tik Tok compared to regular users but a

small following compared to content creators with over 10 million followers. She released her

first single in December of 2019 entitled, “Emotion” and just recently released her latest single,

“I Luv U” in 2022. Her first single music video received around 850,000 views on YouTube and

her recent music videos have surpassed 6 million views. On Spotify, her streams range from

700,000 streams to 29 million streams on her five singles that she has released. Her most popular

release and the single responsible for the fame she has attained over the past two and a half years

in credited to her single, “Psycho” which is the one and only single of hers on Spotify to get over

10 million streams totaling at 29 million with her next most streamed single sitting at 4 million

streams. For those of us who are unfamiliar with Mia Rodriguez, I would place her musical

creations in the genre of pop. For means of comparison, I would compare Mia to a similar sound

and vibe to Selena Gomez and Dua Lipa when it comes to her music. As for her look, I would

compare her to Katy Perry and Dua Lipa. Of course, her work and look are very original with

vibrant colors and a mixture between dark indie/pop sounds and mainstream melodies. I use

those comparisons to give an illustration on what to expect when it comes to Mia Rodriguez. She
has music that I could envision hearing on the radio as her creations resonate well with the

current trends. Mia was signed with City Records in late 2019 and has blossomed as she has

released more work. She is currently about to go on tour in Australia from December 2022 to

January 2023 with tickets available on her website. Her most recent single released was “I Luv

U” which was released on August 9th, 2022. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her eventually go on

tour in the states.

Career Highlights:

 Mia was signed as the first artist with City Pop Records in Australia in late 2019 and has

blossomed as she has released more work.

 In 2020, Mia was nominated for the “Unearthed Artist of the Year” award at the J

Awards in Australia.

 In 2021, Mia Rodrigues was nominated and won the “Best New Artist” award at the

Rolling Stone Australia Awards

Quotes:

 “Because of Covid, I haven’t had the chance to talk to many artists at all. I’ve kinda

just been rolling with everything. It is really challenging working and being

surrounded with men in my field of work. I started my career in the music industry

when I was a 17-year-old girl, I grew up without much of a male figure in my life too.

So, it can be really scary. Especially because I feel misunderstood a lot of the time. I

try to communicate more to women as much as possible!”

 “I think it’s just important to never let anyone bring you down, stick up for yourself

and know your worth!”

 “I actually worked my way um starting on TikTok, when it was called Musical.ly at

the time. It was way before the TikTok hype, and I was bored… it was 2018 and the

app was dead at the time so I made a couple videos hoping no one would see them ha

ha. But my account pretty much exploded. I enjoyed singing too so I sung covers here

and there, and boom! Record labels came swarming in, it all happened really fast

and I’m still processing it”

 “I have recently made an ultimate game plan with my team, and I’m going to release

quite a lot of music very soon - with music videos - so I’m really excited for that!”.

 I try to always be in the moment and not think about social media too much;

however, it’s a little hard when that element comes with your career, and it’s an

opportunity to communicate with your fans. It’s just super important to disconnect

yourself from any hate or negativity when it comes to social media, but there’s also

so much love and support, which for me, overshadows the bad!