Congratulations to student Emily Liang, winner of the 2020 Cantonese Lyrics Competition: Combating COVID-19! The competition was co-organised by the School of Music and the UBC Cantonese Language Program.
Ashia, singer and clinical psychologist
Emily’s song “Rain Before Sunshine” is about a nurse who sees her partner for the last time before volunteering to take care of COVID-19 patients. Fighting her fear of death, she hangs on to a sense of purpose and hopes to see her partner again.
The song was performed by Ashia, a Hong Kong-based clinical psychologist, and produced in Hong Kong, Vancouver, and the US with zero in-person contact.
The song is available on iTunes, Apple Music, YouTube, as well as KKBOX and JOOX for listeners in Asia. Here is the music video, designed by Media Studies student Sonia Kung.
Emily and Dr. Hedy Law, who helped organised the event, were recently featured in a CBC interview.
