Beat / How did you get into music and what socialized you musically?
Joplyn / I have been singing ever since I can remember. At the age of five, like any other Asian child, I was sent to piano lessons to learn the pieces of classical music. The first songs I wrote were from poems I wrote first for school, but then primarily for myself. At some point - I think I was about eight years old - I had the idea of combining these poems with piano playing. At first, this turned into very abstract songs. Then I got more and more into it, and the abstract poems set to music became songs, accompanied on the piano. The electronic part came later, when I discovered GarageBand on my computer for the first time and downloaded Ableton shortly after. That was definitely also due to growing up in Berlin.
Beat / Was there a point where you specifically decided to start the project Joplyn?
/ Probably around my first release. It wasn‘t planned, but at some point I had a song that was „good enough“ in my eyes to release it. Before that, I was expressing myself creatively with no real plan and putting my real
