Magdalen Hsu-Li

Magdalen Hsu-Li is an internationally acclaimed American singer-songwriter, painter, speaker, writer, and cultural activist. She identifies herself as bisexual and as Chinese American. Hsu-Li was born in the southern Virginia city of Martinsville to Chinese immigrant parents. She began piano lessons at age 8 but was mainly interested in painting in her early years. She attended college at the Rhode Island School of Design where she won accolades including the Florence Leif Award for Excellence in Painting, the Talbot Rantoul Scholarship, and the Chicago Institute Of The Arts Oxbow Fellowship. After graduating from she moved to Seattle, Washington and discovered a passion for music over visual art. She matriculated at the Cornish College...