Pete Teo

I first heard of pete teo about 5 years back i think. I’m not sure how i got to know about his name, but i’m very sure it has to be about local music that i was searching around till i bum over his name here and there.

If memory serves me right, he was a DJ-ing for NHK radio in japan for sometime.

For a independent artist, he sure has make his mark in the local industry.

Malaysian Racism

Now.

What has Pete Teo and malaysian racism has in common?

The story was like this:

pete was juggling tomatoes.

bored. so he telephoned a few friends instead. “how about getting together to make an anti-racism song and music video?” all said yes without hesitation. not because pete threatened them with a rusty knife. only because they love malaysia.

The headcount grew to 52, then swelled to 120. Including famous people like ning baizura, amber chia, reshmonu, jaclyn victor, awie, daniel lee, tony fernandes, maya karin, and so on.

Besides the obvious celebrities, among them include local filmmakers, dancers, singers, producers, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, designers, footballers, activists, models, students and even a florist!

they named the project “Malaysian Artistes For Unity”.

Originally, they were suppose to use a old john lennon song for it. Some how they got into some licensing issues with the john lennon guys.

And so, Pete kind of wrote the song 5 days before the studio recordings.

Later on, they manage to shoot a MTV of the song with KLPAC sponsoring the location. (I personally like the MTV, it’s shot at with a very malaysian style.)

we the rakyat lah

With just over 5 weeks of effort, they manage to complete the production phase from scratch. Best of all, all these was done without any budget.

Some of you may have heard the song from local radio stations or on 8TV. But if you missed it, here it is:

Here In My Home - Malaysian Artistes For Unity

try to look for tony fernandes.
And try not to laugh also.

Oh yah, since it’s a non-profit effort and they would like both the recording and the video freely and legally available to every malaysian regardless of race, income and politics you may get it over here. You can download the MTV,MP3 or even in your mobile 3gp format.

Let’s throw away all those racial nonsense and lets be Malaysians.




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