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Cut from the same cloth: Drag artist Opera Tang takes after seamstress grandmother
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Drag artist Opera Tang learnt to sew, cook and speak Teochew from her grandmother Martha Lau.
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SINGAPORE – For Singaporean drag artist Opera Tang, 29, a seven-decades-old Singer sewing machine handed down from her 93-year-old grandmother stitched a precious bond between them.
“She likes seeing me continue with the skills she practised when she was younger,” says Tang, whose preferred pronoun is she/her. She grew closer to her maternal grandmother about five years ago, after she picked up sewing from the former seamstress.
