(All pics below pleasantness of Liyana Fizi)
A SINGER-songwriter popular for her honey-like vocals as well as melodic tunes,Liyana Fizihas been in a Malaysian eccentric music stage given 2006. She initial made her entrance as a single of thefounding members of a indie cocktail bandEstrella, that perceived 8 nominations for a inauguralVoizeIndependent Music Awards in 2008.
Liyana has given become a piece for a single person artiste, releasing her entrance piece for a single person albumBetween a Linesin September 2011. The album features 10 songs, together with a little a guitar-playing artiste composed herself. Indeed, Liyana says music is an critical countenance of her reason up as well as musings.
In an interview withThe Nut Graphon 8 February 2012 in Bangsar, a songstress, who is of mixed ancestry, tells us since she feels it is critical to keep upon sharing stories, views as well as opposite opinions.
TNG:Where were we born? What do we remember from your childhood?
I was innate in Hospital Kuala Lumpur upon fourteen Sept 1983. My beginning mental recall was in Brunei. we stayed there for a little while when we was three years old. But alternative than that, my childhood was spent in Shah Alam, as well as we still stay in a same house from when we was little.
Shah Alam was a nice place to grow up in since it is similar to a big neighbourhood. we stayed with my motherly grandparents as well as my mum. And we know how amatory grandparents are. So we was unequivocally loved. It was awesome.
Can we snippet your moth! erly gra ndparents' roots?
Grandma was from Negri Sembilan as well as has Jakun, Jawa as well as Chinese blood, as well as grandpa was from Malacca. But my late grandpa was actually not my biological grandfather. Before him, my grandma was tied together to my biological grandfather, whose name was Peter Polderman, a Dutch [citizen] who was residing as well as working in Malaya during a time. But my grandpa lifted my mother, as well as he lifted me. So we don't consider blood is thicker than water, we unequivocally don't.
As distant as my family is concerned, we have clever "girl power" andadat perpatihtradition from a Negri Sembilan side. On my father's side, he is from Kedah as well as has Siamese, Mamak, Arab lineage. So it's all unequivocally rojak in my family.
Liyana (bottom right), with her mom (centre, back), her motherly parents mom (front, centre) as well as alternative family members in a photo from a Seventies.
What was it similar to flourishing up with this good mix?
Despite this good mix, we was lifted as a Malay girl. we guess a benefit of having a family of mixed birthright would be that we have been not inclined to judge people according to skin or religion.
Are there any noted family stories or memories we reason upon to?
My parents mom regularly had stories. What we realise is that people from a old days regularly have a little sort of heirloom or beliefs. My grandma rocks; she is unequivocally sporting. She is a type of grandparent who wouldn't mind if we wore bareback dresses or off-shoulder blouses. But she regularly pronounced never to unclothed your midriff. It is a sexiest partial of a lady as well as we cannot show it.
She is unequivocally wise, as ! well as her advice that will regularly stay with me would be: "If it is not yours, do not take it." And: "If we have money, do not contend we do not if someone wants to steal some. Rezeki will regularly come behind to you." we consider a single of a many special pesanan we will regularly keep with me is "Take caring of your mum". She regularly pronounced we go to no a single yet God, yourself as well as your mum.
It is a unequivocally matrilineal family. You must have grown up with such a clever sense of your gender, as well as being a woman.
My grandma was schooled only up to Standard Two, as well as was stopped from starting to propagandize in box she learnt how to write surat cinta to boys. Then they tied together her off. Such an astray situation.
Liyana's motherly parents mom during a P Ramlee era.
However, she was unequivocally spirited. we was lifted to know as well as assimilate my gender, not let it stop me from we do a lot of things. They additionally contend Negri Sembilan women have been unequivocally tough to control since they have been garang as well as feisty!
Was competition ever an emanate to you?
It was never an emanate as my family never likes to segregate. We have been already so mixed! During Christmas, we had a tree since we regularly wanted a Yuletide tree, yet there were no trees for Hari Raya. So my silent would find a tree, mist it china as well as put up Raya cards upon it. It was a Raya tree! We would additionally skirt up in saris as well as go visiting for Deepavali. Since we was a child this was all a norm for me.
Do we feel we were a single of a propitious ones?
Definitely, since we know a little of my friends who have never been for a Chinese New Year or Deepavali celebration. They sojourn stranded inside their own bubble. They have this mindset that if they admit o! r apply oneself another religion's celebration, they have been betraying their own. But Islam promotes that we apply oneself alternative people's religion.
Obviously these days, there have been controversies surrounding a issues of competition as well as religion. How have they influenced you?
I started realising these issues in college. My silent refused to send me to a internal university since she did not wish me to be in a bubble. She went to UiTM yet she had a tough time there. Being half-Dutch, she stood out, as well as there were issues she was not "Malay Malay"; her colour; she did not wear a tudung.
So we was sent to serve my studies in a private college in Subang. we was wearied in high propagandize yet in college we had a lot of fun. In certain classes we had a category upon Communications, Power as well as Conflict we would study a Internal Security Act, Bumiputera rights as well as alternative topics. we was a single of a three Malay [Malaysian] students in class, as well as lecturers would pose questions to get a contention going. Some students would contend they could not get certain things even yet they had complicated so hard. we was 19, as well as we was listening.
It was such an awakening since we realised how easy it was for me to get a loan. we remember thinking: "Shouldn't it be a matter of seeking during one's background or grades for scholarships?"
And how did it make we feel?
A two-year-old Liyana as well as her mother, with a "Raya tree" in a background.
It made me feel as if this privilege was put upon my head. Some people contend (the privilege) is a good thing, yet there we was in category as well as others did not have this privilege. So how is this easy for me?
For people who have been in my social network, we try to encourage them to open up their minds a little bit. we am not trying t! o evange lise or anything, yet it is only to contend certain things like: "Do not segregate."
I once pronounced "Happy Deepavali" online, as well as a single child said: "Someone pronounced wishing Happy Deepavali is haram, awak kafir!" That pissed me off, that is unequivocally tough to do. So we gave him a piece of my mind, as well as a thing about posing these questions online is that we will get a lot of comments. Someone else will share links, a little will contend these have been what opposite ustazhave said, as well as others will contend we must apply oneself opposite religions.
What else gets we or creates we unhappy about Malaysia?
Corruption. It's unequivocally blatant. And a using of media to try as well as cover things. People can compare these days; it is not hard. What affects me is meaningful that there have been people who have been not aware a infancy who have been receiving in everything upon TV or in a papers as well as believing it. It affects me since if we have been trying to shape a nation this way, it is not starting to go far. That gets to me.
What do we wish for a future?
I goal a single day we will have free preparation as well as medical services for all citizens in this country. If we could get to that point, afterwards things would progress in each aspect. That would be my dream.
And no tension over religion, since that is supposed to be personal as well as not governed. What gives me goal is that things have been regularly progressing, as well as we have some-more as well as some-more young people who have been willing to verbalise up. They have businesses as well as they have been some-more outspoken. You know these old people who exclude to change? we keep meditative they will be transposed by these young people, these opposite youths of today.
The bookFound in Malaysia Volume 2, that was launched upon Malaysia Day 2011, is now available in bookstores for RM50. It features formerly unpublished interviews with Asha Gill, Lillian Too, Khairy Jamaluddin as well as Baru Bian. Volume 1 ofFound in Malaysia, featuring 54 earlier interviews, is now in the second print run as well as retailing during RM45.
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