Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.
From Yuna
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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