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Additionally, the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund is accepting donations and applications for musicians and music industry workers impacted in Los Angeles County and surrounding areas. Financial ...
Miyashiro, who is of Japanese and Korean descent, was raised in San Jose, California. His eclectic taste in music was largely influenced by his parents. Miyashiro’s father was an avid soul and Beach Boys fan who nurtured his son’s music discovery via after school trips to stores like the historic Tower Records on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip ...
The company has gained popularity as a music platform and record label primarily for Asian American artists such as Joji, Keith Ape, Rich Brian, and Niki. Miyashiro once stated that 88rising is "The Disney of Asian hip-hop". [2] In 2019, 88rising was awarded Label of the Year by Netease, one of the largest music streaming platforms in China. [3]
Year Albums 2004 Untitled: 2005 Wish: 2005 L'Hospital - Nipesh DHAKA : 2006 Doubt: 2007 One Day: 2008 Yug: 2009 The Performer – Ek Kalakar: 2010 Yatra 2 by Deep Shrestha: 2011 Kadam: 2012
On September 22, 2018, 88rising presented its inaugural Head In The Clouds Festival at the Los Angeles State Historic Park.The lineup included acts based in North American and Asian music industries, including Rich Brian, Joji, Keith Ape, Niki, Higher Brothers, Dumbfoundead, and others. [10]
Chong's professional music career started in Los Angeles during the early 1990s, producing local rap groups such as Baby G, The Funky Few, and Soul Selection. He is one of the three members of the group, Solid (as well as the writer and producer), which was the first R&B group in South Korea with record sales exceeding 4 million. Chong then ...
Through playing in a band on weekends he met June Kuramoto, a native of Japan who grew up in Los Angeles and played koto, a Japanese stringed instrument. Kuramoto admired Earth, Wind, and Fire for the way it combined jazz and R&B, and Santana for his identification with Latinos. He wanted to create a band that would represent Asian Americans.
Kai was the first of many Filipino American R&B/pop artists/groups of the late 1990s and early 2000s that flooded the independent music scene throughout California, the state with the largest Filipino American population in the United States, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area.