Craig Minowa is a singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the frontman for the alternative rock band Cloud Cult.

[3] Throughout his childhood, the family's living room was dominated not by a television, but by a piano which his mother would often play for Minowa and his sisters.

[4] Minowa was heavily bullied in school but found comfort in writing music at a young age.

"And I sat out there — a beautiful spring morning, everything coming to life, and had a religious experience that I hadn’t ever felt within those four walls of the church.

"[6] Even years into his career as a musician, Minowa continued holding a day job to earn a living.

Among other projects, he composed the score for the 2015 feature-length documentary film The Great Alone, about the dog sled racer Lance Mackey.

[14] Although Cloud Cult's lyrics are often considered in their own genre of "self-help rock", Minowa has been careful to keep his personal life out of the public lens.