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MOMOKO ROSE BY JUSTIN FLYNN
Momoko Rose is a young star on the rise. Picture: Rebecca Hosking
PREPARING for an interview with young Geelong musician Momoko Rose, I turn to Spotify to find a four-track album she released in 2018.
I purchase the album on iTunes for a measly $6.79 - money wellspent.
Headphones on, I listen for an appreciation of her style ahead of our chat.
“That’s so great, so nice, thank you so much,” she says, perhaps embarrassed.
My mind is blown. Her indie-folk songs on When I Blossom are stunning.
Momoko, which means ‘peach child’ in Japanese, moved to Jan Juc with her family from Noosa aged around 15.
Momoko is taken aback to hear I'm a new fan.
The EP title, When I Blossom, is a metaphor for her music career. “In Japanese culture the cherry blossom symbolises transience and a new beginning, so I thought it was appropriate for the first musical output that I had,” Momoko explains. She tells me that today is her 21st birthday.
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