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Making music away from home: Local musicians venture overseas for inspiration
Local musicians are moving abroad in search of opportunities, bigger markets and new creative stimuli
Seeking a new creative environment, home-grown electronic artist Yllis left Singapore for New York to be a full-time musician in 2016.
It was a little terrifying, he admits. "(It was) the uncertainty... from getting the visa application approved to the financial considerations of making such a move," he says over e-mail of the challenges he had to face. "I also didn't know anyone in New York before getting here, so that was scary."
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on May 31, 2018, with the headline Making music away from home: Local musicians venture overseas for inspiration. Subscribe
