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Yung Raja, a Tamil Singaporean rapper, joins the After Hours team to talk about his path that lead to record deals with Def Jam Records South East Asia and Universal Music Singapore. Yung Raja started off as an actor, until he quickly came to realize that songwriting and rapping was what he had a real passion for. He highlights how important it is for him to incorporate his mother-tongue, Tamil, into his music. Listen to the end as the conversation goes from English to Tamil for a fun little twist.
On this special episode, the After Hours team make a trip to the TwinstarZ studio. The twin brothers - DJ Starama and DJ Thunder - are pioneers in the Tamil Remix game, starting their venture in this genre in the late 90s. They brothers touch on how different music was in the early 2000s and the...
Published 10/05/21
This episode, the team head over to St. John's, Newfoundland to speak with the author of "The Boat People", Sharon Bala. "The Boat People" was Sharon's debut novel, which is a fictional story surrounding a group of refugees from Sri Lanka who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach the shores of...
Published 08/13/21