The song both hilariously and endearingly summarizes the many joys and traditions this season elicits in the Chinese community. “Happy Lunar Year! We bring the Lunar cheer! Grandma’s in the house, so you know the mahjong table’s here!”
“It’s the Year of the Rabbit, we here and we rappin’. Feel that good luck? Grab it! Red Envelope? Cash it!”
The Grant Avenue Follies, a legendary group of Chinese women who for decades have entertained both Chinatown and the Bay Area, teamed up with Los Angeles-based Chinese American rapper and activist Jason Chu and AARP for a new single and accompanying music video to help ring in the Year of the Rabbit.
“Happy Lunar Year! We bring the Lunar cheer! Grandma’s in the house, so you know the mahjong table’s here!”The Grant Avenue Follies started as a group of professional dancers at San Francisco nightclubs during the 1950s and 1960s.
"We've been through a couple challenging years and we want to wish everybody a happy new year as well as making sure that it will be a peaceful and healthy new year. That is very important to us," Follies co-founder Cynthia Yee told NPR."We have customs that have to be followed, such as cleaning the house before New Year's Day to sweep away all the bad luck and welcome the new."This isn’t the the group's first foray into rap either.
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