Miley Cyrus’s Little Sister Noah and the Youngest Jonas Brother Frankie Just Dropped a Duet, Almost 20 Years After They Voiced Ponyo and Sōsuke Together as Kids
They’re the babies of two of pop’s biggest families. Noah is Miley Cyrus’s younger sister. Frankie is the youngest of the Jonas Brothers, behind Kevin, Joe, and Nick.
Before either of them had their own music careers, they were two kids in a recording booth dubbing a Miyazaki movie. Ponyo premiered in Japan in 2008, and the English version arrived in U.S. theaters in August 2009. Noah voiced the title character, a goldfish who wants to become human after falling for a boy named Sōsuke. Frankie voiced the boy.
Both of them grew up and kept making music. Noah, now 26, went the country and Americana route, and her single “July” went triple platinum. Frankie, 25, builds quieter indie songs and performs under his own name with the project The Byzantines.
In late May they showed off the matching ink: the iconic image of Ponyo and Sōsuke pressed nose to nose, lifted straight from the frame that gives the film its heart.
“High and Sad,” out today, is an introspective duet rather than anything tied to one genre. It’s the first time the two of them have made a song together as adults, the gap between a childhood recording booth and now closed by a movie they made as kids and never quite left behind.
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