She began to doubt herself, wondering, Are people interested? Is this realistic? Fifty views, mostly friends, was a good showing. But Katherine Li’s YouTube videos did not go viral. She hoped to follow the bedroom-to- Billboard path blazed by her countryman Justin Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube in 2008, and, more recently, by Mendes himself, another Canadian, who broke out in 2013 on Vine, a short-form-video platform. Her showpiece was Richard Clayderman’s “Mariage d’Amour.” But, apart from singing in the choir at school, and occasionally busking with Alice (who was chosen as an official subway musician by the Toronto Transit Commission), her only public vocal performances were the YouTube videos she made in her room, in which she sang covers of songs by Taylor Swift, Julia Michaels, and Shawn Mendes.
Katherine began piano lessons in first grade, and could sight-read music. “I’ve looked up to her my whole life,” Katherine said, of her big sister. She sang, modelled, acted, danced, and won beauty pageants. She thought that Katherine would attend medical school and become a pediatrician. “The best in everything,” Maggie told me, with fierce pride. Their middle daughter was an outstanding student. The Lis, who speak Mandarin at home, left Beijing for Canada in October, 2001, “in search of a better life,” as Chengwu Li, a mechanical engineer, put it. Her mother had imagined Katherine’s future differently. By the end of middle school, she was still thinking, I believe in myself, and I can totally do this! “I’d see all the music and think, That looks so fun! I really want to do that!” she told me. As a tween, Katherine became obsessed with Nickelodeon’s “Victorious,” a sitcom about a teen musical artist, played by Victoria Justice Ariana Grande was among the cast members.
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When Maggie Li was pursuing her master’s degree in economics at the University of Ottawa, Katherine was born, in 2003, and Maggie would put the crib in front of the TV with music videos or music-oriented programming playing while she studied.
Like many Gen Z kids, Li grew up steeped in social media (she started using Instagram in third grade) and in music, much of it transmitted visually.
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