Hana Vu composes pop music in her LA bedroom. Her full-length debut, Public Storage, was announced when she signed with Ghostly International.
Vu first became interested in music when she learned how to play the guitar her dad had laying around. Every morning she would listen to ALT 98.7 in Los Angeles, which played alternative rock from the 1990s and 2000s. Later in high school, she discovered the local DIY movement. She began documenting her in-room pop experiments on Bandcamp. Over the course of a number of self-recordings, her sound—dark, melodic pop powered by the guitar and Vu's unique contralto—became established. These releases included a subdued Willow Smith duet as well as renditions of The Cure and Phil Collins.
Gorilla vs. Bear heard her song "Crying on the Subway" and decided to release Vu's self-produced first EP, How Many Times Have You Driven By, on their Luminelle Recordings brand. Pitchfork, NME and The Fader were among the first publications to feature the band; the latter made the lighthearted claim that "the seventeen-year-old is cooler than you and me." She followed it up with the Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway double EP on Luminelle.
Vu has backed artists such as Soccer Mommy, Sales, Nilufer Yanya, Wet, Kilo Kish and Phantogram on stage. Her debut release with Ghostly and her first collaboration with co-producer Jackson Phillips (Day Wave) are the album Public Storage..

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