KASHIN | 家倩 is a songwriter, producer and storyteller focused on belonging, memory, and the legacy of displacement. A child of Vietnamese refugees, KASHIN creates music that preserves intergenerational stories and reimagines home as both inheritance and creation.
A classically trained pianist, KASHIN has been immersed in music since childhood. Her parallel work as a writer, with pieces published in the Globe and Mail, CBC, and Toronto Star, informs her approach to lyricism. By merging her literary sensibilities with East Asian musical influences and lush alt‑pop, she crafts an intimate, cinematic world while confronting the myths of belonging and assimilation, and the unspoken expectations placed on diasporic communities.
KASHIN is currently recording her debut album, Stateless, a concept-driven project tracing her family’s displacement from Vietnam to Canada. Drawing from family interviews, personal narratives, and cultural critique, the album uses storytelling as a form of reclamation. Evoking the bittersweet longing to return to a place that no longer exists, KASHIN’s music is ethereal, defiant, and haunting, yet grounded in hope.
Chrysanthemum Tea
A song for the words left unsaid
Saigon Moment
Listen. Reflect. Remember.
Where I Come From
Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from. If you could respond with more than a country or a place, what would you say? What could you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel? My debut single searches for the words.
