Jane Lui

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Jane Lui
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Lui performing in 2010
Background information
Birth nameJane Wing-Chi Lui
Also known asSurrija
LuieLand
BornApril 24
United States
OriginLos Angeles, California, United States
GenresPop, rock
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
producer
performer
Instrument(s)Vocals
Piano
Guitar
Percussion
Melodica
Glockenspiel
Music box
Years active2000–present
Labelsunsigned
Website www.surrija.com

Jane Wing-Chi Lui is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Southern California.

Contents

Biography

Lui grew up in Hong Kong and at the age of 12, she moved to the United States. [1]

Her musical influences include Tori Amos, Kate Bush, and Björk. [2] She has opened for Jason Mraz, Jim Bianco, Kate Earl, Vienna Teng, Tom Brosseau, and others. In 2004, she started her solo career. [3] Since then, she has released three albums.

Lui voices Mother Tanaka in the 2012 animated short film, Hibakusha, alongside Karin Anna Cheung, Daisuke Suzuki, and William Frederick Knight. [4]

In 2019, Lui successfully crowdfunded her fourth album [5] under the name SURRIJA. New tracks have now premiered on Earmilk [6] and Audiofemme. [7]

Lui is credited as being Opera Evelyn in the 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. She is also credited on the movie's soundtrack under the track "Opera Fight."

Education

Lui has a degree in music education from San Diego State University. [8] She is classically trained in piano and voice. [9]

Discography

Albums

  1. "Yellow Light"
  2. "Pigeon Woman"
  3. "Blackest Crow"
  4. "Blue Square"
  5. "Freddie Goodtime"
  6. "Playing God"
  7. "Years of Roses"
  8. "Phaedon"
  9. "Marvelous"
  10. "Rainbow Sleve"
  11. "Pigeon Woman" (hidden track; produced by Greg Laswell)
  1. "Third place Difference"
  2. "West in Me"
  3. "Hunter"
  4. "Libra Armor"
  5. "Barkentine Interlude"
  6. "Snowboots in Summer"
  7. "Firefly"
  8. "Surrija"
  9. "Barkentine Memoir"
  10. "Widowmakers"
  11. "Made of Ribbons"
  12. "Below" (hidden track; live from San Diego performance)
  1. "Goodnight Company"
  2. "Jailcard"
  3. "Edelweiss"
  4. "Perished"
  5. "Illusionist Boy"
  6. "Southern Winds"
  7. "Take Me For Now"
  8. "New Jersey"
  9. "Long Ago"
  10. "Last Rose of Summer"

Others

Awards and nominations

Reviews

Justin Roberts writes positively about Lui, describing her vocals as "sultry" and "candlelit". [17] On Barkentine, the San Diego Troubadour notes the originality of her album. [18]

For her performance of Below at Kollaboration 9 in Los Angeles, Ernie Hsiung describes Lui as a "...stand out performer..." [19]

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