Kooky Tuason
Filipina spoken word artist and radio personality
Kooky Tuason is a Filipino spoken word artist, advocate, and educator.
Career
Kooky Tuason has been in the Spoken Word scene since 2005. She was featured in Manila Bulletin's Women of 2015, Lifestyle section and Philippine Daily Inquirer's Super Section "A woman's way with Words". She had an online radio channel to inspire and empower women called Romancing Venus Radio.
She has her own record label, Bigkas Pilipinas Records, focused on Philippine poetry.
Spoken word
She has 7 Spoken Word albums: Romancing Venus 1, Romancing Venus 2, Bigkas Pilipinas, In Transit: Manila x Toronto (2012), Southversive, Bigkas Pilipinas on JAM 88.3 Vol 1 and Bigkas Pilipinas on JAM 88.3 Vol 2.
She created the first and only Spoken Word radio show at Jam 88.3 in the Philippines, "Bigkas Pilipinas", from 2007 to 2009, then went back on air on 2018. Her show was nominated at the KBP Golden Dove Awards and Catholic Mass Media Awards for Best Culture and Arts Program. It now can be also now be streamed via Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other streaming sites.
She performed her Spoken Word track, Holdap, from the album Bigkas Pilipinas, in the indie film Rome and Juliet.
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