Ling Kai

Ling first started performing at open-mic nights at Singapore Art Cafe at the age of 18, with jittery nerves that belied a voice so emotive it often came as a surprise to those who would listen. After sometime, she decided to record a song she's been hearing in her head for a while - a few haunting notes, some sparse guitar lines - and put up the video performance on YouTube, raw and unedited as it was; probably because the comments online were made by people she didn't know anyway. Little did she expect her song to be featured on the site's homepage, getting more than 1 million views.