9th Annual Kollaboration

The 9th Annual Kollaboration at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles on Saturday, February 21, 2009.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Since its inception over eight years ago, Kollaboration has launched an array of talent shows which provided a much needed platform for countless aspiring artists in music, dance, poetry, and other creative expressions. Having garnered a creditable reputation for delivering striking performances unexampled elsewhere, Kollaboration has been able to help turn up the volume of many Asian Pacific Islander (API) American voices in 24 shows in 5 cities so far.

This year, Kollaboration 9 will take center stage on February 21st, 2009 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles for its 25th show. The show will be offering special guest performances by MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew’s Kaba Modern and Fanny Pak. Also performing is Comedy Central’s Jo Koy, whose new show premieres this year.

The historical and iconic venue’s 6,300 seats will be filled by an eager audience, as the show’s line-up of competing performers are composed of the most listened-to independent artists of today:

• Jane Lui – award-winning songwriter and performer with her rich and soulful voice
• Paul Dateh – hip hop violinist
• David Choi – Warner Chappell songwriter and David Bowie award-winning songwriter and performer.
• Kenichi Ebina – the only two-time Grand Champion of Showtime at the Apollo; actor and choreographer of the Japanese drama Manhattan Diaries
• Jazmin – the four-sister pop-group finalists of MTV’s Top Pop Group and NBC’s America’s Got Talent
• Kina Grannis – Interscope Record’s singer and songwriter
• Lilybeth Evardome – Concerto protégé of Andrew Robinson of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

This year’s panel of guest judges include Moon Bloodgood (Actress of the upcoming Terminator: Salvation, Eight Below, Street Fighter 4), James Kyson Lee (Actor of NBC’s Heroes), James Ryu (Editor-in-Chief of KoreaAm Journal and Audrey magazine), Welly Yang (director of Asian Excellence Awards), and Teddy Zee (Producer of The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch).

Afterwards, the official Kollaboration 9 After-party will perdure into the night at the Shrine Expo Center (directly adjacent to the Shrine Auditorium), to house 4,000 partying patrons. Special guests Roscoe Umali (Rapper with the #1 Independent Record in the U.S.), Nylon Pink (L.A. pop-rock band composed of Kaila Yu, Karen Beck, Kat Lee, Samuel Bluck, Tj Mcdonnell and Tj Normandin) and Tatum Jones (R&B group finalists on NBC’s America’s Got Talent) will also perform to assure an epilogue worthy of a program for an affair of its own.

To purchase Kollaboration 9 tickets, click here.

For more information, please go to http://www.kollaboration.org