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Pan Asians Aren’t Letting the Music INdustry change their identity
Club Ruby's Vice President Hon interviewed for Re:News
“Finding a voice through music
Club Ruby is an alt and punk rock band with dashes of pop and musical theatricality.
For Club Ruby’s bassist Hon Manawangphiphat, who went through the foster care system, his connection with his Thai culture is now occurring in adulthood.
Only when he joined Where The Asians At‽, the Asian collective who organised the festival, did he realise the lack of Asian representation in the New Zealand music scene.
“It’s funny because, not until I joined Square’s zoom meeting, I never thought about my culture at least…There haven't been that many Asian role models especially in the music scene or just in general on the Western side. Even the [rock] genre itself,” he says.”