No Time Present Like the Present
Sep 08, 2021
4 minutes
By Koyyi Chin. Photography by Eric Chow/Blink Studio
Creative direction and styling by Colin Sim
It was 2009 when 23-year-old law student Yunalis Mat Zara’ai—who is more famously known as Yuna today—knew that she had to face the music eventually: she needed to come clean to her parents that not only was she, in the singer-songwriter’s own words, “jamming with the boys”, but she also had a substantial following over her MySpace at the time with her own music, and was performing her songs live over the past six months.
She grins when she recalls the moment she spilled the beans. After telling her parents that she was doing gigs in the local indie scene, the first thing her father had asked her was: “what’s a gig?”
Deciding there and then that
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