Inch Chua

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Inch Chua Yun Juan (born 22 December 1988) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter, musician, producer and artist currently based in Los Angeles. Chua is also the host and creator of Gear Gawk, an Internet TV series profiling musicians' working gear and how it helps achieve their sound. After rising to fame in Singapore's nascent indie scene as lead singer of the rock band Allura, Chua began to record on her own, blending acoustic folk with alternative rock, electronic music, jazz and pop influence. Inch Chua is backed live by her band, The Metric System.

Personal life

During her childhood, Chua got the nickname "Inch", as this is how her given name Yun Juan may sound if spoken quickly. At 10 years old, Chua had been bitten on her face by a dog, necessitating 135 stitches and leaving some permanent scarring, which increased her sense of social isolation at the conformist all-girls' school she attended. As Chua described later, "I was the one digging for worms in the mud, and having the teachers shout at me for getting dirty. And when they had us drawing circles in class, everyone else would be using a compass, and I'd just shssss, whip one off. The other kids would say, 'That's not a real circle!' and I'd tell them 'You know, not everything has to be perfect.'"