Jane Lui is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Southern California.

Biography

Lui grew up in Hong Kong and at the age of 12, she moved to the United States. Her musical influences include

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, and others. In 2004, she started her solo career. Since then, she has released three albums. Lui voices Mother Tanaka in the 2012 animated short film, ''

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,'' alongside Karin Anna Cheung, Daisuke Suzuki, and

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. In 2019, Lui successfully crowdfunded her fourth album under the name SURRIJA. New tracks have now premiered on

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and Audiofemme. Lui is credited as being Opera Evelyn in the 2022 movie

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. She is also credited on the movie's soundtrack under the track " Opera Fight."

Education

Lui has a degree in

music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...

from

San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system ...

. She is classically trained in piano and voice.

Discography

Albums

*Teargirl (2004) #"Yellow Light" #"Pigeon Woman" #"Blackest Crow" #"Blue Square" #"Freddie Goodtime" #"Playing God" #"Years of Roses" #"Phaedon" #"Marvelous" #"Rainbow Sleve" #"Pigeon Woman" (hidden track; produced by Greg Laswell) *Barkentine (2007) #"Third place Difference" #"West in Me" #"Hunter" #"Libra Armor" #"Barkentine Interlude" #"Snowboots in Summer" #"Firefly" #"Surrija" #"Barkentine Memoir" #"Widowmakers" #"Made of Ribbons" #"Below" (hidden track; live from San Diego performance) *Goodnight Company (2010) #"Goodnight Company" #"Jailcard" #"Edelweiss" #"Perished" #"Illusionist Boy" #"Southern Winds" #"Take Me For Now" #"New Jersey" #"Long Ago" #"Last Rose of Summer"

Others

*Prate and Idle Chatter (2000) – with Jason and Jane (pop duo) *Two Fridays for Thursday (2002) – Jason and Jane (pop duo) *Vega (2003) – with Starline Theorie, co-wrote & lead vocal (soundscape) *Obon (2005) – Starline Theorie, co-wrote & lead vocal (soundscape) * Opera Fight (2022) – with

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and

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Awards and nominations

*2009 Featured Artist on YouTube *2009 1st Runner up Kollaboration – The Shrine, Los Angeles, CA *2008 Best Recording Nominee – San Diego Music Awards, CA *2008 Winner of Kollaboration – Ford Amphiteatre, Los Angeles, CA *2007 Best of Performing Arts Nominee – San Diego/Los Angeles Asian Heritage Awards *2006 Best Female Performer and Best Keyboard Player – San Diego Honoring Acoustic Talent Awards *2006 Best of Performing Arts Nominee – San Diego/Los Angeles Asian Heritage Awards

Reviews

Justin Roberts writes positively about Lui, describing her vocals as "sultry" and "candlelit". On ''Barkentine'', the San Diego Troubadour notes the originality of her album. For her performance of ''Below'' at Kollaboration 9 in Los Angeles, Ernie Hsiung describes Lui as a "...stand out performer..."

References

External links

Official website
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lui, Jane Living people American indie pop musicians American women guitarists American people of Hong Kong descent American musicians of Chinese descent Guitarists from Los Angeles Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women