Years active 2002-present Genre Pop | Website www.yunyu.com.au Record label YUNYU | |
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Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, composer Albums Spiked Soul, Yun Yu, Yunyu | ||
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Yunyu is an award winning Australian musician, film composer and singer-songwriter originally from Singapore, now living in New South Wales.
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- Yunyu twisted tales dorothy
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- Filmography
- Releases
- Music videos
- Songs
- References
She won Australia’s Triple J Unearthed in 2002 with the song "You are Expendable", followed up with "A Prayer" a year later from her self-titled EP. Her music is mostly played on keyboards, pianoforte and synthesizers. Occasionally, when looking for variety, she will play the guzheng.
Yunyu is an alumna of the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) with a Graduate Diploma of Screen Music, taught by Martin Armiger, Christopher Gordon and Kirke Godfrey.
Yunyu won the Crystal Pine award for Best Original Score | Short Film category at the 2015 International Samobor Film Music Festival for her work on a hybrid documentary, inspired by Ted Egan’s folk song, "The Drover’s Boy".
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Filmography
Yunyu is credited as music composer:
Releases
Dorothy (Single) Reimagining of Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" inspired by the lost cosmonauts urban myth.
Butterflies (Single) Based on Chinese folk tale, "The Butterfly Lovers". Also featured on a transmedia collaboration with Kylie Chan’s "Small Shen" published by HarperCollins.
Angel Arias (Single) Transmedia collaboration with Marianne de Pierres' "Burn Bright", commissioned by Random House Publishing.
Spiked Soul
Her song "You are Expendable" topped the Canadian college Charts for a month peaking at No.6.
"Lenore’s Song" is a reply letter to Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven".
Yunyu (EP)
Music videos
The music video for Lenore’s Song, produced in collaboration with director Tahnee McGuire and 'Lord of the Rings' cinematographer Callan Green and producer Matt Carter among others, was made of 16,000 digital pictures. It has been entered in competitions, winning a Gold Award and being a finalist in others.
Songs
Lenore's SongSpiked Soul · 2006
You Are ExpendableSpiked Soul · 2006
Dance So SlowlySpiked Soul · 2006