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Panai Kusui
_(cropped).jpg) Panai Kusui (Chinese: 巴奈·庫穗; pinyin: Bānài Kùsuì; Chinese name: Chinese: 柯美黛; pinyin: Kē Měidài; born 1969) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and social activist.[1] Her parents are of the Puyuma and Amis tribes of southeastern Taiwan. Music careerPanai's first album "ni-wa-wa" was released in 2000 and received an award as one of the top 10 albums of the year by the China Times.[2] Panai has performed at Tiehua Music Village in Taitung City, which was established by the Lovely Taiwan Foundation to promote indigenous music and culture.[3] She also performed at the fifteenth Migration Music Festival in 2017.[4] In 2024, Panai won the Golden Melody Award for Best Taiwanese Album for Iā-Pô (夜婆).[5] During her acceptance speech, Panai mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, and her comments were censored from the internet in China.[6] ActivismPanai supported Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen in the 2016 Taiwanese presidential election campaign, voicing her support for Tsai, whose grandmother was Paiwan. Panai sang aboriginal songs at Tsai's campaign rallies and post-election victory events, including Tsai's investiture.[7][8] Panai, at these events, voiced the need of formal apologies to aboriginal peoples for past abuses. Elected president, Tsai fulfilled these requests and presented formal apologies to aboriginal populations.[7] In February 2017, Tsai Ing-wen's government declared a series of public lands as aboriginal ancestral territories.[7] Panai denounced the moves as insufficient since it did not return lands previously taken and now owned by private entities, including notorious mines.[7] Panai's objection was based on two principles: the right of surviving aboriginal tribes to get back their whole territories, and the request for autonomy consistent enough so aboriginal community could negotiate as equals with the government.[7] Panai was one of the leaders of the Indigenous Ketagalan Boulevard protest concerning the delineation of traditional lands of Taiwanese aborigines.[9] On February 23, she occupied using tents the grass ground facing the Presidential Office Building, but was moved out 100 days later, installing herself near a metro entrance, and after 600 (January 2019) had to move again to a nearby park.[7] During the protest, Panai won an appeal against a fine levied by the Taipei City Government,[10] and continued camping until the presidential inauguration of William Lai.[11] Panai Kusui has also participated in commemorations of the February 28 incident[12] and supported the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.[13] Discography
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