Spotify Uplifts Bold, Emerging Artists in Honor of Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
06/05/2024
API voices at full volume Year-round, we amplify the work of talented API creators across the audio landscape through our Asian & Pacific Islander hub on Spotify. This month, under our campaign theme of Sound Up. Stand Out, we've refreshed the hub with new content. For music lovers, a great place to start exploring is Jasmine, our global flagship playlist featuring emerging API artists from around the world. For podcast fans, the hub includes a selection of shows and episodes from the API community. An audiobook shelf also features a range of titles across fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and more.
Spotlighting up-and-coming artists In recent years, Spotify has seen and supported massive growth in listenership for API artists like producer-DJ-vocalist Peggy Gou, jazz crooner Laufey, and indie rock star Mitski, to name a few.
This year, to amplify the next wave of API artists to watch, we've once again partnered with Gold House, the premier nonprofit collective of API leaders, on our Gold House Futures Music Accelerator program. This initiative aims to uplift API artists by providing them with opportunities to take their careers to the next level-and it's working. Just last month, Futures alum thuy made history as the first Vietnamese American artist to perform at Coachella.
The 2024 class includes Chinese American pop queen Emei, Indian American singer-songwriter Paravi, and British Filipino rockstar Towa Bird. As participants in the Gold House Futures Music Guild, these artists recorded a new trio of Spotify Singles dropping May 15. They'll also gain access to Spotify's masterclasses, world-class mentoring sessions, and exciting editorial opportunities.
And with so much talent to celebrate across the API community, Spotify's 2024 APIHM campaign is also spotlighting four additional up-and-coming artists: singer-songwriter Dhruv, pop artist Tiffany Day, rapper 8RO8, and DJ-producer Knock2.
Spotify continues to champion emergent voices on our platform, with a focus on honoring the diversity within our diaspora, said Sulinna Ong, Spotify Music's Global Head of Editorial and the executive sponsor of SPACE, Spotify's API employee resource group. As the exec sponsor of SPACE, I'm honored to support the great work our Spotify band members do during APIHM and throughout the rest of the year to champion API creators and foster spaces of growth for the members of our community.
Keep reading to hear from these rising stars.
Emei What does being an artist from the Asian and Pacific Islander community mean to you? My parents are Chinese immigrants who came to America in 1988 for education. They are the reason I'm able to pursue my dreams without hesitation, so to represent that community and to make them proud really does mean everything to me. I grew up with very little AAPI representation in pop culture and didn't seriously consider pursuing this career because I never thought someone who looked like me could succeed in the entertainment industry. It's an honor to be a small part of this exciting movement and change in culture.
Why are you excited to work with Spotify on the Gold House Futures Music Guild? Spotify has been one of my biggest supporters ever since one of my first releases, Late to the Party, was placed on the Fresh Finds Pop playlist. I'm really grateful for the early and ongoing support, so it's a dream come true to be able to partner with Spotify and Gold House for this upcoming Spotify Single. Super pumped to hear what y'all think of it!
Paravi What does being an artist from the Asian and Pacific Islander community mean to you? Humans are such complex and colorful individuals with so many unique traits and characteristics. It's incredible to have another layer of the Asian Pacific Islander experience added to this existence, like the cherry on top of my personality, my sense of humor, and fashion-all the things that make me me. It informs what I create, how I create, and why I create, above all. I know the mission of fostering more diversity and representation in the entertainment industry may seem like a very heavy burden to bear on young shoulders, but it's truly one of the many matches that lit my fire. I feel called to pursue my sparkly, glittery artistry and the most authentic version of myself, to heal my own inner child, and to see my most fantastical dreams become reality with my loved ones, but to also prove that it can be done, and that I, a brown girl from a cornfield in Ohio, can be the one to do it.
Why are you excited to work with Spotify on the Gold House Futures Music Guild? The Gold House Futures Music Guild feels like a lighthouse guiding me to a new home, serving as an opportunity for me to not only learn from and observe this beautiful community of API creatives, but to become a part of it! I'm so deeply excited to soak up every new experience, every new relationship, and every bit of knowledge and wisdom these partnerships will offer.
I'm also incredibly excited about the billboards and marketing to come for API month, not just because I'm full of myself and want to see my pores magnified across all of Los Angeles, but because I know that if I saw a giant poster of an Indian pop star on the drive home from school when I was a kid, my
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