Boyana Joseph
Born in Bulgaria and she has always traveled the world with her music. She is a vocal coach, a sound explorer, as well as a bassist, composer, and recording singer. She has a variety of music expressions, and they are all very mature and spiritually inspired. Her musicality is an artistic attainment related to all musical instruments and styles. Many people who know her say that her voice is her musical instrument. She currently owns two bands in Shanghai: Playray, who often perform soul music, funk and jazz, and the other is Balkan Awareness, who play her own original music. The creative inspiration of these music comes from Bulgaria, who grew up with her. Folk songs, she added her own unique language expression and musical elements.
Sarah Mou
An Amazigh (Berber) songwriter, singer, guitarist, and percussionist from Morocco. She is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and sings in Amazigh, French, Arabic, Spanish and English. She grew up in the south of Morocco - Agadir - and then made her way to China to share her roots and music with the world. She has performed in many Stages and Festivals: Shanghai JZ festival, Shalanaya, E-midi Festival, Sofar Music, D2 sessions, etc. She has played in Turkey, Morocco, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailaind. Influenced by artists like Nina Simone, Eryka Badu, Hindi Zahra, Rwayss Amazigh, and Ali farka Toure. Sarah writes about Freedom, Amazigh, Touareg people, their history and their nomadic life style.
Mandy Chen
Immersed in the world of rhythm for 10 years, having initially been attracted by the raw grooves of West African percussion, then expanding her outlook to embrace Brazilian percussion and finally being mesmerised by the vast and deep Indian music tradition. After hearing the magical liquid sounds and unpredictable rhythms of the Tabla for the first time years ago, it was love at first sight. Now in her third year of learning the discipline of the Hindustani “tala” system, she is deepening her knowledge of the Farukhabad and Punjab traditions of tabla while appreciating also the spiritual aspects of the practice.
Jinyu Wang
As director of Soundlike Project, Oriental Danology Institute (ODI), JINYU joined ODI as multicultural music capacity education faculty member and urban soundscape experiment project artist in 2017 as master student major in Erhu instrument, Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Born in 1993, she emerged early as music prodigy by winning almost all the important Shandong provincial and China national first prizes, as Erhu and Banhu instrument player and matriculated by Shanghai Conservatory of Music as top one student in 2012. She has been invited to perform in many prestigious musical occasions worldwide, including Ethno Music Festival 2019, Indonesia Composers Week, Post Fest in Solo and acclaimed for her excellent grasp of Erhu instrument and innovative musical instrument Dongqin.
