Masia One
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The music industry is a hard game to break into: countless men and women have given it their best and watched their dreams break and crumble around them, yet more always appear, each one eager to go all the way for their Art, for that one slim chance they might succeed, and live, and perhaps even realize those ridiculous, embarrassing dreams of achieving some measure of fame and fortune. And in music, who you are matters almost as much as how you perform. If your name is Andrew Baker and you want to be a professional violinist, you might be able to succeed; if your name is Ashanti St. Clair and you want to sing jazz, you just might make it. But if you’re Asian and female and you want to be an emcee ? No goddamn way.
Unless your name is Masia.
The Fighting44s is proud to present Masia One and the M1 Academy.
Growing up in Singapore at a time when kids her age were taking care of Cabbage Patch kids and emulating the Ninja Turtles, Masia only wanted to put on a cap and rock a Flavor Flav clock. A move to Vancouver, and then another to Toronto, and she found herself fully immersed in the hip hop scene, at first an unusual curiosity, and then an artist to be admired and respected. In December 2004, she realized a childhood dream by performing with her idol Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets. With one album and three successful videos under her belt, Masia and her crew - the M1 Academy - are rising.
It was our privilege to chill out with Masia and KhanhRtist, one of her M1 girls, over dimsum and see what the Academy has planned for 2005 and beyond.
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