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EJAEhas 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.”
The annual benefit takes place in late September, which marks the Korean harvest moon holiday Chuseok. It heralds the beginning of autumn and is a time of coming together to celebrate abundance, express gratitude, and strengthen bonds of solidarity.
EJAE joins past honorees of the Chuseok Benefit, including actor and producer Steven Yeun, chefs Mina Park and Kwang Uh of Baroo, actor and director Randall Park and poet and writer Cathy Park Hong.
EJAE is best known for her role in the global phenomenon “KPop Demon Hunters,” where she starred as the singing voice of Rumi. EJAE wrote and performed several songs on the soundtrack including “Golden,” which garnered an Academy Award, Critics Choice, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award for Best Original Song.
