Jimmy Teh grew up in Rangoon, Burma (currently known as Yangon, Myanmar) in a family with musical roots.
They’ll be joined by fellow GTA musicians Tennyson King, Chynnna Lewis, Vicki Lovelee, and Dr. Holic, as well as six others from Vancouver.
Hsu has struggled in the past with the feeling of “being Asian enough”. but writing songs in Mandarin connects him to his heritage language.
Ginalina, Daniel Lew, Kapa Arkieh, and Lefan co-wrote the song and appear in a music video just before the arrival of the Year of the Snake.
Chen explained the ethnicity of music to Canadian performers at a recent Jade Music Fest workshop in Vancouver.
Keitan has come a long way from being a 14-year-old guitarist who felt she had to shield her Asian identity.
Hsu relies on live looping to revealing his proficiency with a variety of instruments in his live performances.
Teh thinks that lyrics forge a genuine connection when it feels like someone is speaking them directly to you.
Lilium lead singer and chief songwriter Lin I-Shuo would love to create a new musical genre that’s made in Taiwan.
Serrini, a Hong Kong singer and songwriter, is looking forward to her first performance in Canada in November at the Jade Music Fest.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
