Early Life and Background
Iha attended Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, which he described as "a boring, middle-class suburb of Chicago." Iha received average grades in high school, and, after a successful two-year stint at a local junior college, he majored in graphic design at Loyola University Chicago before dropping out to dedicate himself to the Smashing Pumpkins.
He is a second-generation Japanese-American and is able to speak only a little Japanese.
Like his former bandmate Billy Corgan, Iha has a brother with a disability.
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