“I was at sitting at home, daydreaming about beautiful sunny summer days, barbecues, gatherings of friends, and that song “My Life” came to me,” Leesun, a Canadian Korean British singer-songwriter recalls how wrote one of her most popular songs. In this chat with Stellar Woman Magazine she shares her inspirations and how her multicultural upbringing influences her sound. You are a Canadian Korean British singer-songwriter. Tell us about your multi-cultural upbringing. My parents are Korean and emigrated to Canada when I was just 5 months old. I grew up in Canada, in southern Ontario, attending far too many schools (11 schools between ages 4 and 17). My experience, like so many Canadians, was one of being non-white in a culture where somehow the norm seemed defined as white.Being second generation Canadian meant that most of the time I couldn’t relate to the culture that soaked through every school lesson, everything in the media. Learning to speak English at age 4 when I started kindergarten was a memorable experience. So right from my childhood, my experience was one of being different.I moved to the UK in 2001 after meeting a British man online, falling in love, and marrying him. And now I’ve been in the UK for nearly 20 years! I feel completely Canadian, but also profoundly connected to my Korean heritage, but I also became a British citizen in 2006 which feels right also, considering how a significant portion of my life has been lived in the UK. What interested you to do music? I grew up in the Christian church where singing was a huge part of worship. I loved singing, as so many children do, without really thinking about it. To sing felt as natural to me as reading or speaking. Then my mother signed me up for piano lessons when…
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