3 simple ways to support your favourite local musician or troubadour


Azmyl Yunor

Musicians are part of the labour market – performing onstage or even recording for a record label is just as similar as farming or working as a clerk. It is just the perception is often ill-informed. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 1, 2022.

GROWING up, I used to wonder how musicians or singers earn a living. The image of a musician or popular singer is often romanticised and mystified beyond rational logic that most assume that because they appear to be glamorous or decked up onstage that their lives offstage must be equally plush. 

Of course, Hollywood and the like often churn out so-called biopics or even fictional films depicting a pop starlet or rock star rise and fall from stardom, where humble beginnings often end in excess and despair. 


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