I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
