Magnetic North (group)

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Magnetic North is the hip hop duo Derek Kan (aka Direct) and Theresa Vu (aka T-Minus, TVu). Magnetic North’s sound is distinguished by socially conscious lyrics, frequent use of live instrumentals, and genre-blending styles. Kan and Vu met while undergraduate students at University of California, Berkeley, and began performing together in 2003. Since then, Magnetic North have been frequent headliners for concerts across the United States, and the duo has shared the stage with artists including Ursula Rucker, Blue Scholars, Native Guns, and CHOPS of Mountain Brothers. Magnetic North have collaborated with many notable artists and musicians, including singer/songrwriter Vienna Teng for the song One2One, and Wong Fu Productions for the music video Drift Away. In March of 2006, Kan and Vu released their self-titled debut album, Magnetic North, featuring the well known track ‘Drift Away’, which pays tribute to the original Dobie Gray song. Since the album's release, Magnetic North are frequently among the top 25 unsigned hip hop artists on MySpace.

1 Members
2 Discography
3 Sources
4 External links
5 Video Footage

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Theresa Vu has been rhyming for more than a decade. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Vu was born in Oregon and her family later relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. At 16, Vu began performing in the Bay, and continued developing her unique style while an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.

Vu is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Brown University.

Derek Kan’s early musical studies of piano and drums gave him the skills to pen his own rhymes and beats from an early age. Born and raised in greater Los Angeles, Kan was deeply inspired by West Coast rappers, and released his first album, with the group AllReal, while a senior in high school. Through subsequent albums, Kan has developed a wide vocabulary for beats and honed a signature rhyming style.

Kan is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Ex’pressions College of Digital Arts.

[edit] Discography

Magnetic North (2006)
Track Listing
1. Unda Control
2. It Lingers (Interlude)
3. Demons (Only One)
4. Drift Away
5. So Long
6. Kora (Interlude)
7. You and You
8. Dozens of Dimes
9. Dear Hip Hop
10. Soliloquy
11. Price of Perfection
12. One 2 One
13. We Will Not Be Moved