Tou Saiko lee

musician / poet / community educator

musician / poet / community educator

BIOGRAPHY

Tou SaiKo Lee is a spoken word poet, storyteller, hip hop recording artist and community organizer from St. Paul, Minnesota. He collaborated with his late grandmother, Youa Chang or Zuag Tsab who does the traditional art of kwv txhiaj (Hmong Poetry Chanting) to form the duo "Fresh Traditions." He is the founder of Street Stops and Mountain Tops which connects teaching artists from the U.S. to engage with Hmong students in Southeast Asia. Lee received the Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship in 2016 to focus on utilizing creativity and arts to preserve cultural identity. Lee is writing a memoir about their collaboration with his grandma to honor her passing titled My Grandma can Freestyle. He is releasing his first Hmong language Hip Hop album titled Ntiaj Teb Koom Tes which translates to Unified Worldwide in 2019.

Qualifications

  • songwriter

  • performer

  • activist

  • community organizer

Contact

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