About.
Asta and Her Path of Music
Asta is a songwriter, singer, music producer, flutist, and aromatherapist from Taiwan. She found the passion for music in her teens, then she wrote her first song when she was 12 years old. After participating in some songwriting competitions, her debut album - YACHUN ASTA TZENG was finally released in 2009, and this record got her two Golden Indie Music Awards - The Best New Artist / The Best Folk Single. Her second album - HEART LAND was released in 2013 which was an album produced by herself, and she got The Best RnB Single of the 4th Golden Indie Music Awards with this record.
Though she started to be a music producer on other projects, she still worked on her own stuff. In 2019, her 3rd album - YOURSELF produced by herself was released, and she was nominated for The Pop Music Producer of the 18th Independent Music Awards with this record.
The latest album - FEAST OF THE SOUL is her 4th album but debut flute music album. Actually, this is not just a flute music album but with her unique soulful vocals. FEAST OF THE SOUL was awarded for the 11th InterContinental Music Awards - Best Song of America in R&B genre - "INTUITION", and Asta was awarded for the 9th Josie Music Awards for Musician of the Year - Flute in 2023.
Journey of Playing the Flute
Asta started learning to play the flute when she was a junior high school student, but due to the pressure in school, she decided to stop learning to play the flute. She had been learning the flute for a year at that time, but she didn't find great joy in playing this musical instrument because the style she learned was not her type. She took her flute back around 2015 and found flute music deeply touched her. She got the direction for her own flute music through the inspiration from a Canadian flutist - Jef Kearns. Then, she started to practice playing the flute in an opposite way, and write music for the flute. And the idea for making a flute album had sprouted up.
Making music for flute is not quite as easy as writing songs for vocals, and this is completely a different field to her, so this record took her seven years to work on. Now, it's truly time to share this masterpiece with you!
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