The thread through much of saxophonist and composer Patrick Shiroishi‘s work was the excavation of his Japanese American heritage, and how his family's complicated past shaped his present.
Patrick Shiroishi — pictured here in Los Angeles — released 19 albums in 2022; at least three were standouts in their respective fields, in part because of the questions of identity they examine.Patrick Shiroishi — pictured here in Los Angeles — released 19 albums in 2022; at least three were standouts in their respective fields, in part because of the questions of identity they examine.
"I definitely yelled at them about it," he continues with an uncomfortable sigh."I said I'd quit when I was 30. Until then, don't bother me." And now, as he prepared to make a major leap in his life — leaving his job of a decade as an instructor and manager at a nearby music school to pursuemusic full-time — he felt that story again. As Japanese Americans, his parents had often sacrificed desire for stability, for the ability to provide for their family.
"I don't think I wanted to be Japanese," Shiroishi says of his childhood."I was very much into, like, being 'normal' or Americanized or American."Shiroishi was born into a bifurcated identity, into the tension between understanding his ancestral roots and his compulsion to assimilate. While Uzuko's parents remained in Japan, Allen's family had already been in California for several generations.
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