My Final Concert As MusicalBasics

When I started "MusicalBasics" in 2008, I was frustrated at the music I heard at the time. There was no passion, no emotion, no humanity in the music of the time. Over the years many people have asked me "why MusicalBASICS?" and I gave a lot of different answers over the years, but 14 years later, I finally figured it out.

The basic element of music is the soul crying out. As an introvert, immigrant, and dreamer, I always found it difficult to fit into society. No matter where it was - the school, the university, the church, or the workplace - I always felt like I didn't have the right WORDS when I was engaged in conversations with people. The minute I tried to add my thoughts or join a conversation, people would either ignore me or try to block me off from their conversation, as if my presence was somehow making their day worse.

Frustrated with my lack of ability to express myself properly, I turned towards things like writing poetry and stories. I loved my creative writing classes. I even wrote Harry Potter fanfiction as a teenager - my fanfiction stories had more words than the entire 7 Harry Potter books combined.

It wasn't long before I discovered composing music as the perfect way to express myself. Finally, I could release all my tears, teenage angst, loneliness, desperation, and pain into my music. I didn't write music for anyone else, I wrote it for myself. Like therapy, writing music was my way of cleansing my soul, letting it scream out into the night in all of its pain and loneliness.

People say that Bach and Mozart's music is perfectly written and sounds like it came from heaven, while Beethoven's music sounds like it came from the soul struggling to express itself. I realized this is why I've loved Beethoven so much over the years - I'm not perfect - I'm as broken as anyone else. And my music is the same - imperfect, struggling, and still crying out into the night.

At my London concert 2 weeks ago, I announced that this would be the last ever MusicalBasics concert. From now on, I will be performing as "Lionel Yu".

Performing a magical concert in Portofino, Italy on August 21. Click Here to watch the livestream! https://youtu.be/ZECGjoy0Cuc

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