Biography

Alex Wong creates music to help people remember who they are and show themselves to the world. A Latin GRAMMY-nominated artist and producer known for his work with Delta Rae, Vienna Teng, Melissa Ferrick and Ari Hest, Alex’s music has been featured in TV, film and commercials, including The Last Song, True Blood, Ray Donovan, Google and more. He has always had a complicated relationship with his memories, unable to remember his own childhood birthday parties yet possessing many vivid, sensory memories from dreams, places he’d never been, and what seemed almost like isolated vignettes from another life. The dissonance led to the songs on his latest album, The Elephant and the Seahorse. As he allowed himself to look more honestly at his past, he was forced to acknowledge that he had been “hiding” his identity, as a second-generation Chinese-American for much of his life. Memories of being told to downplay his ethnicity in school, social groups, or in the mostly-white music industry, to speak with no accent, and to keep himself small rushed to the surface, along with waves of shame and anger for buying into this conditioning. He chronicles those emotions for the first time in his song “Show Yourself": I miss the sound of my father’s Chinese Fading in the suburban breeze Why do I run from what I used to be Why am I hiding from my history?