Turning familial pain into pop gold
By Mark SavageBBC music reporter
Hendrik SchneiderThe singer's debut was conceived as a dissertation on intergenerational pain"I had a proper identity crisis growing up," says singer-songwriter Rina Sawayama.
"I started to feel like things that had happened to me, like going to university, actually didn't happen. I doubted everything in my life."
To put her life back on track, she started a long, delicate process of digging through her family history and decoding her identity as a Japanese-British, pansexual woman.
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