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Hua Li 化力

Montréal, QC

Hua Li’s project works the fruitful tension between opposing forces, whether being mixed-race, bisexual, or overtly political and softly vulnerable. In 2024 she released her her most ambitious and personal record to date, ripe fruit falls but not in your mouth, garnering her a Global Asian Creative Award, a spot on Range Magazine’s best albums of 2024 and a GAMIQ nomination for best electro album of the year.

Following 2019’s Dynasty and 2020’s critically acclaimed Yellow Crane EP, ripe fruit is characteristically libertine. The rapper is fierce and frequently funny, erupting from gauzy runs to deliver a quick uppercut that stings. With hooky, addictive features by Ambrose Getz and Darkus Millon, ripe fruit is an intimate record of healing, with Montreal’s nightlife at its heart.

An artful collaborator, Hua Li co-wrote and performed on Gayance’s 2023 Polaris short-listed album, Masquerade, and is the touring DJ for Inuk electro-pop throat singer, Riit. Her charismatic stage show has taken her around the world, including tours with Cadence Weapon and Fat Tony (serving as the former’s touring DJ), to Reykjavik’s Secret Solstice Festival, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and Pride Toronto.