Kokokaina

KLUE magazine did a special on 20 Malaysians under 40 for their September issue. Normally I don't buy KLUE. At the end of September, though, I bought it: I know, buying a magazine at the end of the month? What was she thinking?!

The special segment had lots of Malaysians under 40 who were changing the country, as teensy bit as it may be. Tan Hong Ming and Umi Qazrina, the two primary schoolkids from Yasmin Ahmad's Petronas commercial for last year's Merdeka were among the featured. ^^, those two are kewt. Hujan was featured, so was Kenny Sia. Zain HD! That's one guy worth writing about. (He was the brains behind KL Freeze.)

Anyhoo, the first of the 20 young people selected was this young girl of 22, Zee. Her name on YouTube is KoKoKaina, and she recently got signed to Brushfire Records in Los Angeles. I know what you're thinking: oh no, another Marie Digby!

Rest assured, she sounds NOTHING like Marie. Even better than her, I can say.
Check out her cover of Summertime. (embedding was disabled)

The following video is a duet she did. The title of the song is Tonight You Belong To Me. I can't help replaying it over and over again! It's like Lucky, but oh so better than that.