Vietnamese-Australian multidisciplinary artist, Minhy (mini), creates immersive worlds through her award winning visuals, thought provoking lyrics and genre bending style of electro-pop-R&B.

folk-pop songs about climate, community + cycles 🌱💓

DUEL NATIVE is the musical alias of Stephen Choi, a Half-Trinidadian, Half-Hong Kongese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer based on Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia). Blurring the lines between folk-rock, dream pop, and British indie, DUEL NATIVE draws influence from Björk to Bob Marley and beyond. Since 2021, his discography evokes a kind of unique nostalgia that is both fresh and difficult to confine.

As Fruit Sonic describes it, “...a timeless quality that shows off DUEL NATIVE’s ability to bring old-school and nu-school styles into a singular whole.”

A product of the East and West, Choi was a founding member of the pop-punk band Greyhound Green, where he shared stages with The Libertines, The Maccabees, Alabama 3, and Tjinder Singh (Cornershop) - sometimes in a packed London basement, sometimes on MTV Europe.

Beyond crafting DUEL NATIVE’s songs of melancholy and hope, Choi is also a renowned architect and a leading voice in the environmental ecology of music.

What does he want? Where does he hail from? Why is he singing in another language? All great questions for the amnesiac puzzle of a man. In early 2019, Theo hit his head in an accident. He believes he was in Australia on business, but is unable to remember his origins, and his purpose. What he does remember are bits of other languages, and songs that he wrote (he thinks). 

Theo Lopea combines the lo-fi rock energy of the early 2000's garage mavericks like The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, with the vocal stylings and songwriting of old-time artists such as Elton John, and Carole King.

Over the course of 2020, Theo Lopea has taken the time to reflect and greatly hone his sound, culminating in the release of his debut full-length 'International Man of Mystique'.

He might not remember who he is. He may be completely clueless as to how he ended up wandering the globe. Nor can he explain his inexplicable - and, honestly, bizarre - obsession with music boxes. But Theo Lopea has realised only music can help him unveil his true identity, and he wants to share that journey with you.

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