Interview with Katherine Ho, Singer of Crazy Rich Asians "Yellow" (Chinese Subtitles Available)
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2018
- In this next episode of "Now You Know," meet Katherine Ho--a student at USC, and the voice behind the Mandarin cover of Coldplay's "Yellow" in the major motion picture CRAZY RICH ASIANS.
We discuss everything from how she got the opportunity to sing this pivotal song and Director Jon M. Chu's letter to Coldplay to translating the lyrics in Mandarin and the impact Crazy Rich Asians had on her--all in the room where she recorded her demo!
So sit back, relax, and enjoy this in-depth interview. This interview is also available in Chinese and has closed caption English subtitles! Just click the setting wheel :)
Or, fast forward to a specific question below:
0:17 | Introduction
1:28 | The room where it happened
2:21 | Being recognized at USC
3:06 | How many times has she seen Crazy Rich Asians
3:36 | Hearing her song while watching the movie
4:36 | Being selected to sing the song
10:46 | Breaking down and translating the lyrics in Mandarin
15:41 | Talking Chinese American identity
16:44 | Discussing Jon M. Chu's letter
20:00 | Getting to know more about Katherine outside of CRA
21:14 | Majoring in Biology -- her choice or her parents?
22:16 | What's next?
23:36 | "Thank Yous"
26:38 | Shoutout to USC
Read Jon M. Chu's letter to Coldplay:
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Katherine's song was VERY integral to the success of the movie..Katherine's interpretation of this song in Chinese made a lot of the people in the theater cry during the scenes...combo of the scenes and the song made for great emotion....good job, keep singing..
I cried during both Katherine's and Kina's songs and just honored to have been able to interview them both on my channel so far! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
I cried too in that scene, and I don’t even understand Chinese. The song really touched my heart and it complemented the scene perfectly.
This film makes me CRAZY proud to be Asian! Immediately after watching the film, I searched for the soundtrack. Jamming to the soundtrack day and night. Katherine Ho, my ears have been blessed! ❤️
April Chan that actually what i am doing right now lol. I admit, the movie and the music was so beautiful.
Me too binge listening to her rendition of the song. Beautifully sung.
haha good stuff
@@eyvhuhgfg5331 I have these moments when I listen to this over and over and over ...
I loooooved her rendition. And I am not even a Coldplay fan! She made me fall in love with this song. Thanks for making this video!
Hey you good chat
PROUD TO BE YELLOW
You really made an old man like me crying like a baby when listening to your song at the end of the movie.Well done young lady!God blessed and good luck for your future undertaking.Love from Malaysia.
What a sweet, talented, humble, eloquent young artist. She did an amazing job, and I wish her luck in her art and career. Great interview!
Seriously, tho! She is just the sweetest!
So much attention of “CRA” movie has been focused with the actors/actresses, director & author. So it was refreshing to discover this interview vid about one of CRA songs, “Yellow”, and its awesome singer. Interesting background story on how director Jon Chu wrote a pleading letter to Coldplay on how their song “Yellow” greatly meant to him personally, and the band finally granting permission to use in his movie. So cool that Jon chose university student, Katherine Ho, from his alma mater, USC, to sing this beautiful song in the movie, and in Mandarin, which added to the cultural theme. Usually movie songs are sung & recorded by professional famous singers or actors, so it was wonderful & incredible the song was performed by a young, unassuming and brilliant Chinese-American college student! So cool she is now part of the CRA fame and she was so excited to learn the project was CRA movie, and a longtime fan of Constance Wu. Wonder if she attended any of the glamorous Hollywood or Asia events showcasing CRA? I was hoping Katherine would sing a few bars of her song in this vid, instead of reading the lyrics in Mandarin. But I enjoyed this interview very much and all about Katherine Ho! Thank you, Nicki! (love your yellow dress!)
A comment that shows you actually watched this entire interview is EVERYTHING! I even gave you a shout out on my Instagram stories because it meant so much to me. Thank you SO much for sharing in our conversation :) If I may share something off-camera, Katherine was actually not invited to the Hollywood premiere. I was SHOCKED! Like, what?! So you KNOW I had to do this interview and share even more about this wonderful human being. I, too, was not granted clearance to cover the green carpet premiere...hopefully, my numbers won't matter so much in the future as the quality of coverage I would have brought. We kept all that off-camera for obvious reasons, haha...but we still got mad love for everyone involved and couldn't be more thrilled for the success of CRA and what it means for the Asian American community! Glad you liked my dress-I picked it for obvious reasons ;)
Thank u, Nicki, for your lovely reply, that my response to your interview of Katherine Ho meant so much to you. Coincidentally, today I went to see CRA again, as you can see & hear details of a movie the second time around. I paid attention when Katherine’s “Yellow” was sung in the movie, and it was during the most emotional scenes. There many other songs sung in Mandarin that added to the cultural aspect. I always sit through the credits, so I enjoyed Awkwafina’s “Money” song and watching the cool kaleidoscope of bright colors and images from the movie (even saw the dead fish) and loved the bright emerald engagement ring. Anyways, I thought it was great that you gave recognition to other Asian contributors to CRA and someone as young as Katherine is inspiring to see, especially to the younger crowd. Great choice by director Jon Chu. I told my daughter, who is half Chinese and lives in SoCal, to watch CRA soon before she leaves for vacation to Bali. As I subscribe to your channel, I look forward to your future interviews and vids!
Her singing is what made me cry so much during the movie
Freaking nailed it. That song was the highlight of the movie for me!! Also I was one of the strangers who reached out, so Hi Katherine!!
She definitely was speaking directly to YOU then!
I love her voice and the Chinese version of the song "Yellow"
Yes!!!
i sing my son Yellow as a lullaby (Renée and Jeremy version) but now that he is 4 and started going to school and learning Chinese, I was so excited to learn this in Mandarin after we watched the movie and sing to him again before he goes to sleep. ♥️
How sweet!
This is one of my favorite CRA interviews. There was such momentum to bring this movie to fruition. Thank you for bringing her contribution to light. What a humble singer! That song added so much emotion to the film. Thanks for translating the Mandarin.
So great to hear you loved our interview, thank you!
Dear Katherine - It is a lovely lyric with Mandarin sounds by your voice ! I keep listening back and forth both the original and Mandarin in tough time under COVID-19. I hope you and your family are safe and healthy. Kenji from Ho Chi Minh City
Your interpretation of this song is like over the top
She's going to go far by helping out with the song in this movie. Thank you Katherine for singing this!
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Wow, what a great interview with a talented, sweet, humble artist! I can't believe she created such an amazing rendition with so little time that complimented the movie perfectly!
Her song near the end of the movie, was very very moving! When I give it some thought, I feel that no other song would’ve been as captivating as Catherine’s cover was! Excellent job…you go girl 👍🏼👍🏼👏🏼
thank you katherine, for lending your beautiful voice to a beautiful song used in a beautiful movie ❤️
I love her cover for yellow. I actually like it better than the original by coldplay.
Loved it💖💖
Loved this interview, and im here because i saw Crazy Rich Asians today and just had to see the singer behind the song Yellow in CRA. Loved the song and all the best Katherine, hope to hear more from you.
Thank you! That's totally what I did when I left the theaters and thought maybe others would want to know more about this amazing human :)
Nicki Sun Forgot to mention - thanks for doing this interview Nicki! and for being so gracious :)
You’re pretty amazing and super humble, I love the song. Great job!!
This explained everything I was looking for from her. Thank you.
Great work!!! Asian proud
Love love love Katherine’s Chinese version of Yellow!! 加油加油💪
This video motivated me to put my kids in chinese school every Saturday. I went to chinese school every saturday as first generation chinese born here. So i always wanted but never acted on it. Now hearing you did, I want to. Thanks for all you do.
I wish my parents kept me in Chinese school so I could be bilingual. I'm not sure if I'll ever be fluent in Cantonese or Mandarin, and that makes me so sad! Your kids will thank you later!
Plus you want your children to be able to communicate with Mainland China when the time comes. International companies would be fighting for your children.
It's never too late to learn. My husband was not fluent in Cantonese (being Penang Hokkien). He took it up when he started working. I grew up speaking Cantonese. Learned Chinese in secondary school. I'm Hakka and never got the chance to learn it while growing up. I learned it while listening to Sabah Hakka songs a former schoolmate sings.
Truth
Hard because my mom's side speaks Cantonese, Toisan, and they only taught Mandarin in school. So I can understand more in Canonese, but took Mandarin classes from High School to college. Just need more people to talk to, really!
Wonderful interview!!
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Awesome interview!
Thank you! I didn't know what to cut, so hopefully uploading our full interview, uncut with timecodes, was a good compromise for those who have short attention spans :P
i was here a few months ago watching the interview with Megan Lee. And now I'm back listening to the awesome Katherine Ho. Thank you Nicki!!
Thank you for being a regular viewer and learning more about these amazing artists with me 💛
我是酷玩乐队的粉丝已经超过二十年了，听了Katherine你的这首Yellow，我才去看了电影。电影拍摄得很完美，为我们在世界各地的亚裔同胞提供了信心和自豪。看电影的时候一直盼着你的歌声的出现，而经过那么多的其他歌曲，以及故事情节的曲折波动，最后感人的时刻Yellow响彻影院。好多观众都在你的歌声里，为这个电影鼓掌了（我们芝加哥这里大多是美国观众）。你是你父母的骄傲，我们亚裔的骄傲，祝你追寻找到自己的幸福美梦🌺🌻
美丽。感谢你的分享！
Thx much, Nicki and Katherine for this lovely interview...yes, have seen the movie and loved it.
Hope there will be more...
Definitely! And thank you for watching our interview :)
Amazing song and beautiful song! congratulations Katherine!
You need chat
Go you love
I absolutely love her version of yellow. It makes me feel great inside. And that I can believe in myself
Awesome interview! Thanks so much for doing this, especially breaking down the lyrics, which are both beautiful and very meaningful!
Thanks for watching! I'm sure everyone wanted a lyric breakdown because I certainly did!
Great interview! Real genuine.
Thank you!
Great interview! Love the video. And as always, you look fabolous!
Why thank you! Appreciate the support and love :)
She's so sweet! I love the English version and Katherine's version of the song. It matched the scene perfectly, my tears came out immediately. Also loved the movie, great romantic comedy with Asian representation!
Let those tears flow! Such a fitting song for that moment!
YES!!! Amazing interview as always and so glad she is getting the recognition she deserves. Crazy Rich Asian is sooo good had to take my mom to go see it and need to go watch it again and again.
I want to watch it with my mom too! Must be a completely different experience 💛
It definitely a different experience. It was wonderful to see her laugh and actually enjoy a movie. Also having her explain things we saw and how it was culturally was just outstanding. She is already asking to see the second movie
Beautiful voice! Good job and love the movie myself
when i heard the song, i was like "okie when i get outta the cinema, i need to find out/Google who sang this!"
Exactly what I did and why I wanted to find and interview her!! 💛
Great in depth interview!! Thank you Nicki and Katherine!! Whoo hoo!! I'm subscribing now!!
Awww, thanks for watching, Michael!
No problemo!!
Big coldplay fan, loved this version of Yellow!
So beautiful!
Katherine Ho was awesome. I hope to be able to use her music when I start producing more of my indie films.
What a Beautiful voice! Good interview too
Thanks for watching!
Love Ho's voice!
Seriously? 19? Great job, Katherine Ho! Loved your rendition. Watched CRA 5x and that scene gets me every time. Your song plus Constance's performance vis-a-vis Michelle was terrific.
Omg so much in common with Katherine at 15:50 - 16:05... I also tend to reply back in English when my parents speak in Chinese, and my parents initially came to the US for grad school too! Just one version of the many Asian American stories in this country
Same for my household 🙂
Obsessed with this song by Katherine.
Oh, totally!
Nice, sweet person.
the song made me cry more
aww i wanted to see her play and sing live
I'm actually going to be covering the Crazy Talented Asians show AJ Rafael is presenting and she'll be a guest singer there singing...you know what! I'll make sure to get a clip ;)
I don't know if anyone's commented this, but Katherine was a contestant on The Voice season 10 but was eliminated. Joke is on The Voice though. Look where she is now.
Not sure how many times she uses the word LIKE! Ugh!!
Regardless, she seems to be a super sweet person with a really nice personality & definitely a beautiful voice!
The movie was awesome. Enjoy Katherine's rendition of Coldplay's Yellow in Mandarin.
good job :)
What good job ????
Love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Good luck love❤️❤️❤️
Need chat
What! Again nope 😂
Luck reason me teleport
Me hacker game
You're wonderful! The fact that you could fall asleep anywhere would come in handy during your residency training. :) I urge you to consider pediatrics and join us to change the world.
Great job. Asain pride.
Zamn she's my age. Shooketh
the end of the movie was powerful, the music it made it so
Right??? Did you cry as much as I did???
Yellow pride 💛
They say so many “like”s I feel I have to give one
Great movie! Very nice song! The Chinese version is amazing to certain extent I like it better than English version.
Yellow
She said the word “LIKE” gazillion times! 🤣🤣🤣
I lived that life up until 6 years old. Except not asians but was much larger. IT WAS A CASTLE! How did I live the life? My mother was the maid!
The Castle is in Albany NY right across from West Point military academy. Osborne mansion
Wow, Asian cuties :)
She really likes to say like.
Like, like, like, like, like, like, like....
Is she coming back for the sequel?
🤞🤞🤞
She says 'like' an excessive amount lol. Her version is pretty cute though!
My question for you Katherine: Are you have anything to do with Uncle Ho?
I was very much interested in watching this video at first. But I couldn't even get to 3:00 minutes of it!! By 2:53, all I could think of was: if she says "LIKE" or "Ya, I was like..." ONE more time, I gotta turn this off.
Crazy rich Asians, yeah what a name : /
I'm 19 and I don't know what I'm doing with my life....
No one does! I still don't know what I'm doing, but I choose happiness over regret every. single. time. You'll figure it out :)
Nicki Sun awww thank you 💖❤
For those who says she repeats a word a lot. Try doing a 27 minutes interview without using “like” she is only 19 years old people! Give her a break.
This was also her very first on-camera interview! Let's support our sister, thank you :)
Exactly
The only appearance of the word YELLOW in the Chinese rendition is the word DUSK 黄昏. A good opportunity is missed for the maker of this movie to show that Asians or Chinese are truly confident and proud of their skin color and ethnic heritage.
It is not about the word yellow literally.
It is the metaphor of yellow.
Did not know that Asians can be ashamed of being Asian (until the movie?). Probably attributed to upbringing; some parents instill pride in country of origin.
I just like to be alone and do personal things.. hmmmmm
Please cut out the ya's. Sorry I cut you out after 2 mins
I like the song but your pronounciation could be much better
C C Her pronunciation was pretty good. I'm not Chinese so obviously I can't tell but my point is, non Chinese can't tell and she did a good job anyways. She's American born Chinese and she made a lot of accomplishments at only age 19. Give her a break.
How many times she said "like"?