Panai Kusui


Panai Kusui is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and social activist. Her parents are of the Puyuma and Amis tribes of southeastern Taiwan.

Debut

Panai's first album "ni-wa-wa" was released in 2000 and received an award as one of the top 10 albums of the year by the China Times.

Acitivism

Panai supported Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen 2016 Taiwanese presidential election campaign, voicing her support for Tsai whom great mother was Paiwan. Panai sang aboriginal songs at Tsai campaign's rallies and post-election's victory events, including Tsai's investiture. Panai, at these events, voiced the need of formal apologizes to the aboriginal people for past abuses. Elected president, Tsai presented formal apologizes to aboriginal populations.
In February 2017, Tsai Ingwen's government declares as aboriginal ancestral territories a series of public lands. Panai denounces the moves as insuficient since it does not returns lands previously taken and now owned by private entities, including notorious mines. Panai objection is based on 2 principles: the right of surviving aboriginal tribes to get back their whole territories, and the request for an autonomy consistent enough so aboriginal community could negotiate as equal with the government. Panai was therefore one of the leaders of the Indigenous Ketagalan Boulevard Protest concerning the delineation of traditional lands of Taiwanese aborigines. On February 23, she occupied using tents the grass ground facing the Presidential Office Building, but was moved out 100 days later, installing herself near a metro entrance, and after 600 had to move again to a nearby park. As of early 2020, Panai and her husband are still protesting there.

Discography

  1. 泥娃娃 Ni Wa-Wa
  2. 不要不要討好 Me Myself
  3. 流浪記 Wandering
  4. 浮沈 Floating, Sinking
  5. 捆綁 Tied Up in Knots
  6. 大武山美麗的媽媽 My Beautiful Mother, Da-Wu Mountain
  7. 過日子 Sometimes
  8. 失去你 Gone is Gone
  9. 天堂 Heaven
  10. 你知道你自己是誰嗎 Do You Know Who You Are?
  11. 怎會會這樣 Why？
  12. 每一天 Every Day's Dream
  1. I'm Happy Because You're Happy
  2. Ho-ai-yE-yan
  3. Tied Up in Knots
  4. Talking
  5. Why?
  6. Rice Wine
  7. My Beautiful Mother, Da-Wu Mountain
  8. Memories of Orchid Island
  9. Talking
  10. Yi-na-pa-yiu-ddia
  11. Talking
  12. MuMu's Blue
  13. Rain and You
  14. Relaxed and Happy
  15. Ho-yi-na-lu-wan
  16. Tai-ba-lang Folksong
  1. 海歸
  2. 媽媽請你不要放心
  3. 我
  4. Talaluki
  5. 我和自己
  6. 看到你的臉
  7. 愛!愛!愛!
  8. 飄
  9. 停在那片藍
  10. Afternoon