Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus is an American singer and actress who first became famous as a teenager starring in Disney Channel's Hannah Montana before building a long, frequently reinvented solo recording career. Her sound and public persona have shifted across eras, from teen pop to the more provocative Bangerz period to folk-leaning and rock-inflected records, culminating in her current stretch as one of pop's most consistently self-aware reinventors.

A pivotal turning point came in 2019, when Cyrus underwent vocal cord surgery to treat Reinke's edema, a fluid buildup in the vocal folds. She has said the recovery process became an unlikely catalyst for her sobriety, forcing her to confront how her lifestyle was affecting the voice she depended on for her career^[1].

That period of personal change fed directly into Flowers, the 2023 single that became her signature commercial and critical peak, spending eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Cyrus has described the song as being about her sobriety as much as the end of her marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth. At the 2024 Grammy Awards, she won her first two Grammys for the song, Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, and has called the wins genuinely healing after years of being overlooked by the Recording Academy^[2].

In May 2025 she released Something Beautiful, her ninth studio album, through Columbia Records, accompanied by a feature-length musical film released the following month. The album continued her critical resurgence and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards^[3].

Cyrus is engaged to musician and producer Maxx Morando, her partner of several years, who has worked alongside her in the studio on both Something Beautiful and her tenth studio album, Bass Persuades. She has spoken about the proposal taking place in a location she had privately kept for herself, reflecting a more guarded approach to her personal life than the intense public scrutiny that surrounded her relationships earlier in her career^[4]. Morando, who drums for the Los Angeles band Liily, met Cyrus on a blind date in late 2021; he proposed in December 2025 during a trip to Kyoto, Japan, leading her into a restricted hotel garden under a pretext before getting down on one knee^[6].

Bass Persuades, released September 18, 2026 through Atlantic Records, marks her first album released under the stylized mononym Miley. She has described it as a layered love story shaped by her relationship with Morando and a broader theme of self-love, and will support it with two shows at the Hollywood Bowl in October 2026^[5].

Cyrus was raised Southern Baptist in Franklin, Tennessee, baptized as a child and known during her teenage years for wearing a purity ring as a public symbol of her faith.^[8] As an adult she walked away from organized religion, explaining that she left her church specifically because her gay friends "weren't being accepted" there and were being pushed toward conversion therapy.^[7] She has identified as pansexual, and has described her current relationship to spirituality as more personal and self-defined than the institutional faith of her upbringing.^[8]

Cyrus has also built an ongoing creative partnership with Cole Haden of the art-rock band Model/Actriz. Haden wrote the spoken-word words that opened Something Beautiful, calling it one of the more meaningful requests of his career and saying he was "deeply honored" that she chose to begin the album with words he had written.^[9] He has separately credited that writing work with teaching him to trust his own instincts, crediting it with giving him the confidence to write more truthfully on Model/Actriz's own record.^[10] On Bass Persuades the collaboration escalated further, with Model/Actriz featured as guest performers on the track "Different Religion."^[11]