Music, music, music
I’ll be updating this page periodically to include music that’s piquing my interest at the moment. Song of the day: “Pretty Baby” by Blondie.
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I’ll be updating this page periodically to include music that’s piquing my interest at the moment. Song of the day: “Pretty Baby” by Blondie.
“I didnโt feel comfortable writing in Cree before, but as Iโve become more comfortable with writing songs and making music, now it feels like more of a natural fit,” said โPrecious Diamondsโ musician Adrian Sutherland. “Iโm pleased with how the songs turned out.”
“I knew that I had to have a comeback eventually, because I had promised my fans that I would,โ says the adventurous K-pop star Chung Ha. โThis is what I love to do”
True story: When I was in college, we didnโt have access to The Internets like all you young whipper snappers today. So, instead of drooling over all the photos of food on Pinterest and Instagram, I used to look at recipe books and imagine that I could be eating that instead of the dorm food my parents had paid for.
In the Academy Award-nominated film โPast Lives,โ the Korean concept of inyeon is used to lead viewers into believing that Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae-sung (Teo Yoo) are destined to be together โ if not in this lifetime, then in the future. Or perhaps they were together in a distant past that neither can recall. The introduction of the word leaves moviegoers hoping that these two can have a happily-ever-after ending, despite his living in Seoul, 7,000 miles from her apartment in New York City.
“It’s always interesting to me the weight that [some Asian Americans] carry around from not having grown up with people who look like them,” said “Quantum Leap” star Raymond Lee. “I was fortunate enough to grow up in Koreatown and Glendale, where our star quarterback was Asian and the smartest three students in our class were Asian.”
Voiceover actress Debi Derryberry is best known for voicing the cartoon character Jimmy Neutron. But she is also a musician. Her latest childrenโs album, โGotta Go Green,โ will be released on March 8.
The K-pop sensations and TODAYโs latest cover stars open up about self-care, sisterhood, and their new project, โWith YOU-th.โ
“When you’re in a new country by yourself, there’s nothing greater for character development than putting yourself out there,” said P1Harmony leader Keeho. “Having traveled so much as a kid helped me adapt to new environments. Honestly, it was not difficult for me when I moved to Korea. There was some culture shock, but it was overall just fun for me.”
Some people love filming on location so much that they return there for a vacation. Actress Aliyah Turner took it one step further: โI traveled to New York to work on โPower Book III: Raising Kananโ and I enjoyed the city so much that I made it my new home.โ