Rina Sawayama has been making waves in the pop genre since her debut in 2013. The singer has collaborated with major artists like Elton John, Lady Gaga, and Charli Xcx. Sawayama has now turned her eye toward the acting world with a new role in the latest John Wick flick. Interestingly, a YouTube thumbnail was responsible for the singer getting her role in the franchise.
A glimpse at Rina Sawayama’s impressive career
Sawayama began her music career in 2013 by releasing her single “Sleeping in Waking.” Later that year, she released “Terror on Halloween” under the mononym Riina. Sawayama continued to make music, and in 2017, she released her single “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome.”
That same year she released her debut EP Rina as an unsigned artist. In 2018, she released “Cherry,” which explored her sexual identity. She then embarked on her Ordinary Superstar Tour across the US, UK, and Canada.
In 2019, she went...
A glimpse at Rina Sawayama’s impressive career
Sawayama began her music career in 2013 by releasing her single “Sleeping in Waking.” Later that year, she released “Terror on Halloween” under the mononym Riina. Sawayama continued to make music, and in 2017, she released her single “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome.”
That same year she released her debut EP Rina as an unsigned artist. In 2018, she released “Cherry,” which explored her sexual identity. She then embarked on her Ordinary Superstar Tour across the US, UK, and Canada.
In 2019, she went...
- 3/18/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Mexico City -- Demian Bichir learned an important lesson when he left his native Mexico to launch a U.S. acting career and ended up working in a Mexican restaurant in New York: How to live the invisible life of an undocumented immigrant with dignity.
It's a subtle quality he brings to his Oscar-nominated role of Los Angeles gardener Carlos Galindo in the movie "A Better Life."
Like Galindo, Bichir came to the U.S. illegally. The U.S. amnesty program in 1986 put him on the road to a Green Card. The character he plays is not so lucky, trying to climb the rungs from day worker to owner of a gardening business while keeping his American-born teenage son from street gangs.
"It was important for me to relate to that time when I arrived in New York," Bichir told The Associated Press. "Carlos Galindo's dignity is similar to all...
It's a subtle quality he brings to his Oscar-nominated role of Los Angeles gardener Carlos Galindo in the movie "A Better Life."
Like Galindo, Bichir came to the U.S. illegally. The U.S. amnesty program in 1986 put him on the road to a Green Card. The character he plays is not so lucky, trying to climb the rungs from day worker to owner of a gardening business while keeping his American-born teenage son from street gangs.
"It was important for me to relate to that time when I arrived in New York," Bichir told The Associated Press. "Carlos Galindo's dignity is similar to all...
- 2/24/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
For Demián Bichir, acting is a family business: His parents and his two brothers are also performers. In fact, one year the MTV Mexican Movie Awards created a special category -- Mejor Bichir en una Película ("best Bichir in a movie") -- because of the proliferation of films starring the Bichir brothers. Though Demián Bichir made his TV debut at age 14 in the telenovela Rina and has been working regularly for the last three decades, he is relatively unknown in the United States. That's likely to change with his bold, commanding performance as Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's epic movie Che, opening Jan. 24. Being released as two films -- The Argentine and The Guerrilla -- the more-than-four-hour saga details the life of Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro). Bichir also finished a six-week run in December of his first American play, By the Waters of Babylon, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse.
- 1/14/2009
- by Jenelle Riley
- backstage.com
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