The first time I came to Toronto was in 2003, with nothing but an open heart and a guitar — a few lifetimes ago, it seems. After all the climbs and the falls, and a few turns around the world, I find myself here again in 2025 — stripped bare, heart re-opened, guitar in hand after all, stories humming beneath my skin. When life tosses lemons at a Chinese singer-songwriter, he doesn’t just make hot lemon tea — he looks for tequila. You heard me. This is a new frontier, and I’m standing at the edge

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