Zee Avi

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地区: Malaysia 马来西亚

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英文名：zee Avi

中文名：季小薇

原名：KokoKaina

国家：马来西亚

职业：歌手、词曲创作者

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季小薇出生在马来西亚砂拉越美里省的一个小镇上。在南海附近长大，她父亲在那儿拥有有一家能源咨询公司，自由而备受鼓励的成长。“我长大当律师，”她说，但音乐已经融入了她的血液中。她的祖父过去乐队的乐手。十二岁时季小薇离开了婆罗洲来到吉隆坡。17岁时，他经常把自己锁在房间学弹吉他，一弹就是几小时。由于去伦敦学时装设计的缘故，吉他学习搁浅了四年。重新回到吉隆坡时，季小薇重新拾起乐器，并开始创作音乐，还随乐队演出。22岁生日前，季小薇将自己创作片段上传到YouTube，原本只是让好友观赏后就要删除，没想到却收到路过网友们滚雪球般的热情回应，从20笔一下子跳到3000笔，其中一笔来自白线条乐团(The White Stripes)经纪人Ian Montone，在他的穿针引荐下，Zee Avi成为杰克强森自创音乐厂牌Brushfire Records旗下唯一的创作才女。并于2009年推出了同名专辑。

身材娇小却在YouTube上累积了超过150万网友，Zee Avi用她的歌声再度证明了一句俗谚：“音乐无国界”。用创作获得Brushfire唱片公司的赏识，将自己的才华与传奇人物连结在一起。以拿手的吉他、夏威夷四弦琴(Ukulele)，搭配上独特慵懒舒服的嗓音，打造自成一格的音乐氛围。

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Zee Avi (also known as KokoKaina) is a Malaysian singer-songwriter and musician. Her song "No Christmas For Me" is featured on Brushfire Records's 2008 Christmas album This Warm December. She was discovered as a result of years of posting videos on youtube under the moniker KokoKaina. Her single 'Bitter Heart' is currently available on the US iTunes store, and her full self-titled debut album will follow on May 19th.

Zee Avi is just 23 but she’s an old soul. A huge talent in a petite frame bringing a universal message from the unlikely birthplace of Borneo, an ancient island east of Malaysia which remains an untouched, natural paradise, an apt description of her songs. How Avi came to record her debut album in L.A., the first joint release from Ian Montone’s Monotone Label and Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, is a true 21st century tale of the way the Internet has transformed the music business and shrunk the globe in the process. Born in the tiny town of Miri in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Zee grew up near the South China Sea in a liberal, encouraging household where her father owned an energy consultancy. “I was bred to be a lawyer,” she says, but music was in her blood. Her father’s father sang and played double-bass, accordion, violin and guitar in bands. At age 12, Zee moved from Borneo to Kuala Lumpur where she has been based since. At 17, Zee started locking herself in a room for hours on end to learn to play guitar. Guitar took a back seat for 4 years while she was studying fashion design in London. When she returned to Kuala Lumpur, she picked the instrument back up and began writing songs and performing with a band. Zee began recording her songs on a webcam and posting them on YouTube for a friend to hear. “I remember getting so excited when there was one new comment from some random person I didn’t know… One read ‘I’m lost for words - I shall favorite it and ponder if that’s OK,’ ” The day before her 22nd birthday, Zee posted what she intended to be “my last video,” a holiday song, “No Christmas for Me.” By the time she checked her e-mail Avi had almost 3,000 messages including a slew of label offers. One email came from Ian Montone, who had been shown the YouTube clip by Raconteurs’ drummer, Patrick Keeler, prompting Montone to get in touch and offer to release her music on the Monotone Label. With an eclectic pool of influences that range from such eccentrics as Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Daniel Johnston and Chris Garneau, to jazz greats Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, to classics like Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin, this self-described “rock lover at heart” captures the dark, bittersweet qualities of romance with a crack left open for hope and optimism.

Zee Avi　季小薇 / KokoKaina

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Zee Avi　季小薇 / KokoKaina