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“I stand out because I know what I stand for,” said L-Fresh the Lion.
L-Fresh the Lion wrote his best-known song, “Survive”, in 15 minutes at a friend’s gig. The show was an acappella hip-hop performance for Sydney’s Muslim community and when L-Fresh arrived, he realised he was the only non-Muslim there. As he watched the acts, he marvelled at how a community can be joined together by one common cause and the sense of unity in the room.
With his as-yet-untitled second album dropping in 2016, L-Fresh hopes to continue intertwining his love of music with his desire to inspire love among his wider community. “I hope to continue to build positively through music,” he said, “to go wherever music takes me.”
“I grew up in a country where opportunities are endless but where challenges are very present – Australia has always had its issues with waves of migration,” L-Fresh said. “Racism has run deep since colonisation and is still present in many ways. I’ve felt it throughout the course of my life, as have many people of Indigenous or migrant backgrounds.”
Fresh is an acronym that stands for “Forever Rising Exceeding Sudden Hardships”, and Lion is an English translation of “Singh”, which, he said, represents “power, courage, bravery, honesty, sovereignty, passion, and hunger”.
In 2014, he released his debut album, One, and his second album is due in 2016. He’s currently signed to Elefant Traks.
L-Fresh said Tupac’s “Changes” is the song that really shaped him most as a musician. He was moved by the track’s emotional resonance and wanted to create music that matched that sort of depth.
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L-Fresh the Lion wrote his best-known song, “Survive”, in 15 minutes at a friend’s gig. The show was an acappella hip-hop performance for Sydney’s Muslim community and when L-Fresh arrived, he realised he was the only non-Muslim there. As he watched the acts, he marvelled at how a community can be joined together by one common cause and the sense of unity in the room.
With his as-yet-untitled second album dropping in 2016, L-Fresh hopes to continue intertwining his love of music with his desire to inspire love among his wider community. “I hope to continue to build positively through music,” he said, “to go wherever music takes me.”
“I grew up in a country where opportunities are endless but where challenges are very present – Australia has always had its issues with waves of migration,” L-Fresh said. “Racism has run deep since colonisation and is still present in many ways. I’ve felt it throughout the course of my life, as have many people of Indigenous or migrant backgrounds.”
Fresh is an acronym that stands for “Forever Rising Exceeding Sudden Hardships”, and Lion is an English translation of “Singh”, which, he said, represents “power, courage, bravery, honesty, sovereignty, passion, and hunger”.
In 2014, he released his debut album, One, and his second album is due in 2016. He’s currently signed to Elefant Traks.
L-Fresh said Tupac’s “Changes” is the song that really shaped him most as a musician. He was moved by the track’s emotional resonance and wanted to create music that matched that sort of depth.
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