Mike Doughty (/ˈdoʊtiː/ DOH-tee; born June 10, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s.
The son of an army officer — he spent his teenage years living on the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point — he came to New York City at age 19 to study poetry at the New School University, where singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco was one of his classmates in Sekou Sundiata's poetry course, "The Shape and Nature of Things to Come."
While a doorman at the New York club The Knitting Factory (in that era, a hotbed of avant-garde jazz), Doughty founded Soul Coughing.
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