Chinyi C x Zamira Lacosta

Presented by Small World Music

From our to Centre Stage!

Join us for a double-bill performance as Chinyi C and Zamira Lacosta combine their fresh sounds and new artistic perspectives to grace the city’s music scene.

About the Artists:

Chinyi C

With a voice like a clear blue sky, Singapore-born, Toronto-based Chinyi C writes folk-pop music that feels like a hug wrapped around your soul. At turns honest, soothing, and hopeful, she creates compelling soundscapes with her band that transport her listeners to a world shaped by memory and meaning. Drawing on a life across borders from Southeast Asia to the Pacific Northwest, her songs deftly capture the search for home, complexities of diasporic identity, and hope of new beginnings in moments that underscore many immigrant experiences. Expect a night that tugs at your heart and leaves you feeling a little more whole. Highly recommended: bringing your favourite people.

Chinyi C is a Singaporean-Chinese, Toronto-based folk-pop artist who blends deeply thoughtful storytelling and lush fingerpicking to build connection and bring her listeners into her world of half-spoken dreams, childhood memories, and the search for home. Compelling, soothing, and honest, she tells stories inspired by elements in Pacific Northwest and Southeast Asian landscapes, often drawing on her lived experiences moving between multiple homes. Listeners describe her music as soul-stirring, healing, and reminiscent of "wildflowers in a meadow on a peaceful day". Chinyi broke into the indie folk music scene with her debut EP, "All We Are" (2022), a compilation of six songs on resilience, heartbreak, and moving on. In 2024, she released her latest single, "Human", a folk and chamber-pop exploration accompanied by a visually compelling music video that she co-directed and produced, paying homage to her communities in Toronto, Oregon, Singapore, and all the places she has called home.

Zamira Lacosta

Zamira Lacosta takes the stage with a bold, emotionally rich sound that fuses Cuban rhythms, flamenco, and pop rock soul. Backed by a dynamic 8-piece band, she moves effortlessly from tender ballads to driving, high-energy grooves. With music rooted in love, nostalgia, and cultural memory, Zamira invites audiences into a space of deep connection, celebration, and rhythm, led by her emotive voice and magnetic stage presence.

Zamira Lacosta is a Cuban-born singer-songwriter based in Toronto, blending Cuban rhythms, flamenco, and pop rock soul into a sound that is vibrant, textured, and deeply her own. With over a decade of classical opera experience, her expressive vocals and soulful performances captivate every audience member. Zamira’s music is immersive and emotionally rich, exploring themes of love, nostalgia, and the profound emotions of the immigrant journey. Her lyrics also reflect on the social struggles that have shaped her world—struggles that resonate across the experiences of emigrants everywhere. Through her music, Zamira is also an event producer and a cultural storyteller who seeks to build connections and raise awareness of the importance of cultural roots and heritage, creating a space where identity and belonging are honored and celebrated.

Doors open 7:30 PM

The 2025 Small World Music Series is sponsored by TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment and funded by the Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

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