EJAE has been named as the honoree of Gyopo’s 8th annual Chuseok Benefit.
The Oscar winner and Grammy award winning songwriter will be presented with the award on Sept. 27 in Los Angeles. Gyopo organizes free arts and culture programs in Los Angeles. It explores diasporic Korean arts and culture to speak about broader social, political, and historical issues.
The event will be hosted by entrepreneur and arts patron Ann Soh Woods at her private residence in the Brentwood neighborhood.
All proceeds from the benefit are directed to Gyopo’s year-round free public programming and fund the organization’s mission of generating progressive, critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses and community alliances among diasporic Korean and Asian cultural producers.
Yoon Ju Ellie Lee, Executive Director, Gyopo said, “We celebrate EJAE’s exhilarating artistic talent and its power to define an era of popular music and culture. EJAE’s journey to becoming a global music icon is one of perseverance and courage– complex, layered, and full of twists and turns. Her story has resonated with millions across the globe, but it is the way she shares it, with clarity, honesty, humility, and meaningfully contextualized within a diasporic Korean experience, that has touched the hearts of us at Gyopo. EJAE has used her platform to speak openly about her process, pressure, rejection, and transformation. In times like these, we savor the opportunity to honor a kindred spirit such as EJAE.”
