CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.
Pint-sized and endlessly musical Malaysian singer-songwriter, guitarist and ukulele player Zee Avi will be performing a special homecoming concert on July 7 at the Miri Indoor Stadium courtesy of the Sarawak State Government. I am a fan of hers and I would love to attend the concert. Unfortunately I will be in Bintangor on July 7 for the Bintangkian Lau Peng You Reunion so I will miss this concert. What a pity!
Zee Avi
Zee Avi (born Izyan Alirahman, also known as KokoKaina) was born in 1985 in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. She moved to Kuala Lumpur when she was 12. She studied fashion design at American InterContinental University in London.
Zee Avi, who now resides in the United States , posted a video of her first song on YouTube for one of her friends. The friend convinced Avi to leave the video online even after he had seen it, and soon she received positive feedback. This inspired her to put more videos on YouTube. After being featured on the main page of YouTube, she was discovered by Patrick Keeler of The Raconteurs, who passed the link to Ian Montone, the manager of The White Stripes, The Shins, The Raconteurs, and others. Montone passed her music on to Emmett Malloy, who signed her to Brushfire Records, a record company which is partly owned by Jack Johnson.
Her song “No Christmas For Me” is featured on Brushfire Records’s 2008 Christmas album This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday. Her single “Bitter Heart” was first to become available on the US iTunes store, and her full self-titled debut album was released on May 19, 2009, co-produced by Brushfire Records and Ian Montone’s Monotone Records. On the day of her album’s release, YouTube featured her on the front page in Spotlight: Music Tuesday. From June–August 2009, she toured the United States with Pete Yorn. The final concert on her first U.S. tour was at the Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, California on August 27, 2009.
In September 2007 Avi posted Avi’s song “Monte” was featured in the second season finale of Private Practice. Her song “Concrete Wall”, was featured in episode 11, season five of Gossip Girl.
Avi has recently released her debut EP, One More Time With Colors, on July 20. The four song EP includes the new never released before song “I Wish I Never” as well as three remixes of tracks from her debut album, Zee Avi.
Zee Avi
By employing a sultry alto and layer upon layer of ukulele blues, this 27-year-old’s songs have garnered her a legion of fans not only in Asia but also in the United States.
So fellow Mirians, don’t miss out on this great concert. Tickets costing RM303, RM203, RM153, RM83 and RM63 are available at the visitors Information Centre Miri or online at www.redtix.airasia.com.
For those of you who want to keep track of Avi, go to her website at http://zeeavi.com/home/.
