Hamburg-based KUOKO writes electronic pop songs, produces, sings, designs her own merch and has thus created her very own artistic cosmos.
After a sold-out Elbphilharmonie show, her first tour is scheduled for December 2023, for which she will share the stage with two dancers. The result is a stage show of a special kind, for example when KUOKO and her dance crew perform an empowering choreography that plays with K-pop attitude and dispels Asian stereotypes.
Her second album, "Troubleshooter" (Kabul Fire Records, Dec 2023), is also self-produced and explores themes of failure and deceleration. KUOKO's signature sound of reduced arrangements and playful synth melodies is constantly expanded with new genre influences in the new songs, sometimes her voice wanders over a sunny French House beat ("Loser"), sometimes into more melancholic spheres ("All I Want"). KUOKO does not pigeonhole herself into any musical category and shows one thing above all with her new album: diversity.