dān dān

Portrait of dān dān beneath a red tulle veil held above her head, long dark hair loose, wearing a black butterfly-print top with a jade pendant, trees soft in the background.

kia ora, 你好

wasian singer-songwriter that really likes chicken rice

Tāmaki Makaurau-based soul-food singer-songwriter dān dān makes bilingual folk-pop that explores identity, memory, and belonging through the language of food.

more about dān dān

dān dān looks upward through a ring of red tulle held above her head, wearing a red and black outfit with a jade pendant, against a pale sky. Cover photography by Flora Xie.
cover photography by Flora Xie

the debut EP

songs about food

out friday 14 august 2026

out now

songs about food is a bilingual English and Mandarin EP about family, identity, and growing up between cultures, with food doing the heavy lifting as the medium of storytelling. Across seven tracks, dān dān (she/they) traces food as culture, family, whakapapa, and the quiet language of love: the story of ancestry that survived on very little, and a generation that gets to make art in abundance.

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live

the EP release party

dān dān has been cooking up a debut EP and you're invited for dinner.

Saturday 22 August 2026 at Te Oro, Glen Innes. Doors 6.30pm, performance 8.00pm. All ages.

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live

The EP release party at Te Oro has been and gone. Thank you to everyone who came dressed inspired by food. New shows land on the live page first.

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