168: Artist Leaves a Culture of Academics for Her Music Passion

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

BAER, at 22, is a multi-cultural R&B, hip-hop, and pop singer/songwriter. Born as Sabrina Chang in Taiwan, BAER’s work reflects a wide variety of musical influences. After studying music production and engineering at Berklee College of Music, she moved to Los Angeles, CA, and worked with vocal producer David Quiñones, D.Q. Sabrina did well academically at her international high school. Both parents were successful doctors and assumed she would pursue a profession. “My parents were not happy doing what they were doing, and I had to insist that they let me pursue my passion and go to music school.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love, number 168. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work
0:23.6	she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.7	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Sabrina Chang.
0:32.9	Welcome, Sabrina.
0:34.0	Thank you for having me here.
0:36.0	It is our pleasure.
0:37.3	Sabrina, are you using your talents
0:39.0	doing work that you love? Yes, I am. All righty. We will hear the whole story in just a minute.
0:45.9	Sabrina Chang, also known as Bear, is a multicultural R&B hip-hop and pop singer-songwriter
0:53.3	based in Los Angeles. Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada,
0:58.6	Bear has had an abundant variety of musical influences which can be seen in her work. After honing her
1:04.8	craft as a music producer and engineer in Boston, she began to work with notable vocal producer,
1:10.5	David Kynonones, founder of the
1:12.3	writing camp. She draws inspiration from artists such as Drake, Rihanna, Kenya, and Beyonce. Her debut
1:19.8	single, Breathe the Same, will be available November 10th with her debut EP coming out shortly
1:26.8	afterwards.
1:28.5	Well, Sabrina, Bear, that's a summary of your life today, but tell us what you're up to
1:33.8	now that has you engaged.
1:35.7	Right now, I'm currently, what I'm most excited about is obviously the single that's about
1:43.1	to come out and the EP, Yeah, it's a very exciting time
1:47.4	because I honestly never, never thought this would happen so soon. And I moved to Los Angeles
1:55.8	around a year ago and right after college and I was just interning for different people and trying to
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