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Satica on creative expression as a form of healing from trauma

You have stated that your parents’ life experiences as refugees and the trauma that comes along with that as having a role in their “nurturing your creative spirit”. But would you say their experiences and stories influenced the way you approach art or use art to speak on difficult subjects like loss and pain?

Oh, 100%. I feel that expression is a way of healing. Talking about loss and pain openly isn’t very easy. It took me a really long time to come to terms with personal traumas that I’ve encountered growing up and even just being able to speak about it without crying. So it was easier for me to do it in a more indirect way such as poems and songs because it could be interpreted differently, and to know what I actually felt or was trying to say took a little dissecting. I also had 5 siblings and grew up in a tiny 3-bedroom apartment, so having a regular diary would just mean all my siblings making fun of my deepest darkest feelings. So expression via poem or song was like a secret code to me, no one really knew what it meant except for me.

#2017 #Satica #singer #composer #Cambodian American #Tiffany Young #Tiffany's songwriting partner #Lips On Lips #Born Again #Peppermint #Transparent Agency #April Nhem #Long Beach #Agave Nights #trauma

I met Satica in a quaint café in Chinatown, and as we talk, Ari Lennox’s “Shea Butter Baby” plays softly in the background. We connect over being Cal State Long Beach alumni and first-generation Americans. Though she is outwardly bubbly and receptive, I get the sense she’s also meticulous and strategic.

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As is true for many Cambodians in eastside Long Beach, Satica’s parents emigrated to escape Pol Pot, whose cruel regime killed an estimated 2 million people. Although her family left the brutality of the Khmer Rouge behind, they still carried invisible scars. “My parents were still struggling with PTSD and a lot of mental issues,” she says. “I just needed an outlet. It made me who I am.”

#2019 #Satica #DEAR APRIL ILY #new EP #April Nhem #Far East Movement #R&B / electronic / soul / pop #Cambodian American #Long Beach #kpop #Tiffany Young #Moving Castle #Transparent Agency

The Cambodian-American native of Long Beach, CA explains why a lack of diversity in music persists despite movements toward inclusiveness in other industries.

INTERVIEWER: You’ve gained a lot of recognition for your songwriting for K-Pop acts. What made you decide to step away from writing for others and focus on your own music and putting together an EP?

What?! When did this happen?!