Yunè Pinku: Mixing Malaysian and Cork heritage with a London beat
Yunè Pinku, aka Asha Nandy,
When singer and producer Asha Nandy thinks back to her childhood, she remembers the bustle of London and the hush of the Co Cork countryside. She regards herself as the product of two very different worlds: the endless red-brick sprawl of Bermondsey, south of the Thames, and the wide open fields of the townland of Killeen, near Blarney.
“I very much consider that I grew up between both. Living in London, my mum was working with so much Irish culture. I was surrounded by Irish people,” says Nandy, who records cutting-edge electro-pop as Yunè Pinku. “I spent a lot of time in Cork. I was a little hybrid. There are ideas about community that exist in Ireland more than in somewhere like London. I’ll put out a song, and everyone in my family has heard it in two days.”
