An Update on Sayuri Pastel, February 2024
Sayuri Pastel (also known by their friends and fans as Yuri) is a multitalented non-binary artist who not only makes music, but graphics, cosplays, and gaming content. In mid 2019, Yuri decided to delve into the realm of their main interest; music. Going from making music that would make you want to play games and chill, to music that you could feel the emotions swelling inside you until it bursts into the beat. Over the years Yuri had realized that music was a great outlet for their hardships and past traumas, pouring their energy into that passion.
Sayuri is a Filipino African American born in Salem Oregon. At a young age, they moved from Oregon to California where they resided for the rest of their childhood. Throughout their young years, they were introduced into gaming and anime early on and continued to play from childhood till now. As Yuri grew older they branched their interests further, landing them into mainstream music. Back in the early 2000’s their favorite mainstream artist was Aqua, the pop group that created songs such as the famous ‘Barbie Girl’. This evolved into finding different genre to listen to and finding underground artist Radio Gosha which got them closer and closer to their current favorite underground artists Snafu and Tobias Dray.
As Yuri has gotten further and further into the underground music scene, they began to start experimenting with their own beats and instrumentals. As they developed a love for music and making music, they had to also deal with the hardships of their life starting from an early age. Growing up, Yuri has to deal with being in the foster care system, bouncing around from home to home before finally settling as a young adult. Throughout their life, Yuri not only had to hold onto the difficult times in foster care, but also had to deal with constant abuse and mental decline. As their mental health suffered, they started to develop different kinds of coping mechanisms to cope; the main one is art. From young till now, Yuri has continued to create art and graphics expressing their emotions that they couldn’t express verbally. This then blossomed into what Yuri does today.
Over the years, Yuri has been expressing themselves with their instrumentals, starting with their first album "Melancholy" which is described as ‘dark lofi instrumentals’. This album featured slow and deep beats that made one breathe and relax or cry to feel better. Over time their music genre grew more and more expressive as they expressed their disassociation and C-PTSD with breakcore and dark melodic synthcore. Along with the evolution of music came the evolution of their artwork, graphics and the creation of music videos. Sayuri has consistently done her best to express their emotions and mental stance that is always hard to express with just words.
Along with playing games and making music, Yuri also tends to hang out with their friends on Discord in their server where they post updates on music, Twitch stream info, first glances at new music and graphics, as well as a safe space for their fans, friends, and followers to express their own emotions and have a distraction from the world for a while.
Currently Yuri has just realized their new album "Butterfly Emotions" which features heavy breakcore beats mixed in with soft synth wave, sharing some happiness within the hardship as they continue to grow and create a positive environment for themselves and others.
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