(Unlike the majority of interviews which were conducted via e-mail, this interview was conducted in person, so below is a transcription of our more conversational approach to this interview). 1. What is your name and your profession(s)? My name is Jeff Schroeder. Often, professionally, I go by Jeff Kim Schroeder because I feel it is a way to honor my mom and that part of my heritage after she passed. I'm primarily a guitar player in The Smashing Pumpkins, but I also do a lot of production work for other bands and I do songwriting work as well. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is you ..read more

1. What is your name and your profession(s)? My name is Nirupam Pratapgiri but I go by ‘Niru’. I work as an artist manager at Red Light Management and I’m based in Los Angeles, California. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship? I am southern Indian, Telugu specifically, and I hold Indian citizenship. 3. Are either/both of your parents musicians or somehow involved in the music industry? My family have always been musically inclined. My uncle is a composer and has directed music for a few films and TV shows in Tollywood, which is the southern Indian version of Bollywoo ..read more

Today's a big day not only for our most recent interviewee, Shubh Saran, but also for AAPI Musicians Taku Hirano and Joy Ngiaw! Shubh Saran's single, "postradition", and interview dropped today! Taku Hirano's debut album, Blu York (Live in NYC), dropped today! Joy Ngiaw composed the music for Blush which is now streaming on AppleTv+! Congrats to all of you ..read more

(Unlike the majority of interviews which were conducted via e-mail, this interview was conducted in person, so below is a transcription of our more conversational approach to this interview). 1. What is your name and your profession(s)? My name is Tim Henson and I am an artist, guitar player, and producer. [Tim mentioned his Chinese name as well, but I told him I’d omit typing it out since neither of us knew how to write the characters or the proper pinyin]. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship (US native or naturalized etc.)? My dad’s white and my mom’s Chinese; I a ..read more

1. What is your name and your profession(s)? Nathan Matthew David—composer and noise maker. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship (US native or naturalized etc.)? Filipino—the son of two Filipino immigrants: one from Manila and one from Pampanga. I am a US citizen. 3. Are either/both of your parents musicians or somehow involved in the music industry? Neither of my parents is a musician, but I have many hobbyist musicians in my family! 4. Please tell us a little bit about your experience, either growing up as an AAPI in America, or as a person of Asian descent who imm ..read more

1. What is your name and your profession(s)? Timothy Lin, Jazz Saxophonist 
 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship? I am American born, Taiwanese 3. Are either/both of your parents musicians or somehow involved in the music industry? Neither of my parents are musicians. My dad works for the Fire Department at City Hall and my mom was an accountant, now retired. 4. Please tell us a little bit about your experience, either growing up as an AAPI in America, or as a person of Asian descent who immigrated to America, whichever applies. I was born in the United States, but ..read more

Happy APAHM 2022, friends :) This year has been much busier due to work picking back up and also because of some unexpected health issues, so I had to limit the number of people I reached out to and only selected a handful incredible AAPI Musicians to interview. I hope everyone has been having a wonderful, music-filled year thus far and appreciate y'all who have been tagging the @aapimusicians Instagram account and watching our stories! The interview questions for this year are almost the same as last year's, except that I've shortened the interview a little bit. Without further ado, let's div ..read more

Hey AAPI Musicians fam! It's been a few months since I last updated the blog, but it's great to be back! Thank you for being patient with me; I put this project on the back burner for a while, as work had momentarily picked up and I also spent a considerable amount of time working through some personal issues. Today, I'm back with an interview with artist / guitarist / composer Shubh Saran, whose music I randomly discovered on Spotify a few weeks ago; I was listening to some one of my own math rock playlists and Shubh's song "Slip" came on immediately afterwards. I noted that I did not know th ..read more

1. What is your name and your profession(s)? My Name is Sophia Black and I'm a recording artist who hoards all of her music. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship? I am Japanese-Mexican American born and raised in Los Angeles, California. 3. Are either/both of your parents musicians or somehow involved in the music industry? Yes! My mom is a composer, orchestrator, and professional pianist. One of my favorite memories growing up is falling asleep as I listened to her compose for movies in Japan. My father is also a musician as well, he's a self-proclaimed "working mus ..read more

1. What is your name and your profession(s)? Philip Chuah and I am a Professional Bass player. 2. What is your ethnic background and what is your citizenship? I am Chinese-Malaysian, and I am a Malaysian Citizen with a US Permanent Residency. 3. Are either/both of your parents musicians or somehow involved in the music industry? Neither of my parents are musicians. 4. Please tell us a little bit about your experience, either growing up as an AAPI in America, or as a person of Asian descent who immigrated to America, whichever applies. I grew up in an international school and an English speaki ..read more