Sinan Revell - Metal, Music, SPK (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798189935787)

From the noisy underground of 1980's London to the ashes of the 2026 Los Angeles fires; the untold story of the woman whose voice helped bring "world music" to the West.

As the voice fronting Australian band SPK's alternative hit "Metal Dance", Sinan Revell prised open the hearts and minds of the mainstream to industrial culture's ways of feeling, experiencing and navigating the world. The success of that song helped catapult SPK out of the poverty of the 1980s London underground scene to a new life in Los Angeles, where Sinan's then husband Graeme Revell became a successful film soundtrack composer. After raising their two children, Sinan and Graeme separated in the early 2000s, and Sinan went on to publicly reprise her activities as an artist, photographer and performer, while in the process exploring her own roots. Née Sinan Leong, she was born in China but grew up among migrant communities in 1950s and 60s Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, where her family ran a Chinese cafe. Her autobiography of her childhood and teenage years, when she pitched in alongside her siblings to keep the family cafe up and running once home from school, is by turns affecting and exhilarating, doing for Chinese in Australia what Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston's - The Woman Warrior did for Chinese-American communities in California.

This luminous memoir is the story of what remained. With warmth, honesty, and hard-won grace, Sinan traces a life defined not by what she lost but by what she kept creating - again and again, from nothing. It is a testament to cultural roots that travel with you, to the resilience of an artist and a mother, and to the quiet, stubborn power of making something beautiful out of whatever the world leaves you.

A story of reinvention, cultural strength, and the unbreakable will to create.