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"to be read in the style of the narrator from the Royal Tenenbaums"

Mars Dynamo, native born Chinese, moved to the States at the age 10, started making electronic music in mid summer 2008. Her first love was a childhood red toy piano which accompanied her throughout many travels with her parents... after winning several electronic piano competitions in Dalian, China at the age 7 without any formal training, her Mother decided she should try out for the Prodigy Piano Youth Group. However, during the audition, the master deemed her untrainable due to her eccentricities, and criticized the size of her fingers which was at the time "small and unfit to ever play piano seriously". After the big disappointment, her interest in music laid dormant for the next 14 years until William Harper, a Digital Sound professor at the SAIC encouraged her to start experimenting with music composition, in which she excelled in the class. Her interest started with opera and story telling sound pieces, which eventually developed into full songs. Mid summer, she decided to focus on producing dance music after being inspired by the blooming Chinese Youth culture in Beijing China. In February 2009, Mars was commissioned to started a book project called FAST PARTY, she takes on Chicago's Party history documenting the movers and shakers of the underground. Book release date is yet to be announced. Currently she is a key member of the board at the MYOUR HOUSE underground venue in Chicago, IL. the MYOUR HOUSE has become a social arena for local and national artists, musicians, and creatives, steadily gaining ground in the Chicago music underground as one of the hottest new spaces of 2009.

marsdynamo Catiah Mars Li, Chicago, United States

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