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Nobu McCarthy

Nobu McCarthy (nee Atsumi), born in Ottawa, Ontario, was an actress, stage director and fashion model. Her father, Masaji Atsumi, was a fashion designer in Japan and a diplomatic attaché stationed in Canada when Nobu was born. She was raised in Japan where she studied ballet. While living in Los Angeles, she was discovered in […]

Dana LaCroix

Dana LaCroix, born April 1, 1966, is a Canadian-born singer and songwriter. She has released six roots and blues-influenced studio albums that incorporate elements of pop, roots-rock, country and folk music. LaCroix was born in Toronto, Canada, to Naomi LaCroix (née: Tanaka), a registered nurse and Pat LaCroix, a Canadian musician and photographer who toured […]

Rick Shiomi

Rick Shiomi is a Toronto-born theatre artist now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a leader in early Asian Canadian theatre movement in the 1980s. He credits his time spent in Vancouver in the 1970s, working with the Powell Street Festival in its early years, and later with the Redress movement, as what gave him the […]

Jon Kimura Parker

Jon Kimura Parker is a pianist who regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras around the world. After studying piano with his mother, Keiko Parker, and his uncle, Edward Parker, as a child, he went on to train at the Vancouver Academy of Music, the University of British Columbia, the Victoria Conservatory, the Banff Centre, […]