Patrick Brasca

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Patrick Brasca Taiwan

Patrick Brasca of mixed European and Chinese heritage learned African drums when he was just three, and learned the acoustic guitar when he was 9. At the age of 11, he had already set his hopes on becoming a singer. He was taking part in a Harlem Yu variety show and met Jay Chou who signed him to his record company JVR Music when Brasca was just 13. He also uses the mononym Patrick in some of his recordings.

On 29 October 2015, he released the single "Can't Lose You Now" (Chinese: 保護你) accompanied by a music video. It became part of the soundtrack of popular Taiwanese family TV series Love or Spend (Chinese: 戀愛鄰距離; pinyin: liàn'ài lín jù lí) with the tracks "My Time" (我的時代) on 20 November 2015 and "I Like You" on 17 December 2015. The two songs were included in his first short EP single also called My Time in 2015.

The Taiwanese musician, pop singer, songwriter, record producer, director and actor Jay Chou suggested that Brasca become part of the soundtrack of 2016 American-Chinese computer-animated action comedy martial arts film Kung Fu Panda 3 produced by DreamWorks Animation and Oriental DreamWorks. The bilingual theme song from the film titled "Try" featured Patrick Brasca (in English) and Jay Chou (in Chinese). Brasca took part in the writing of the English lyrics to the track. The soundtrack album was released on January 22, 2016 with Brasca and Jay Chou's "Try" as the title track.

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