Chinese-American singer-songwriter Tiffany Day on her self-funded tour that spawned an award-winning documentary, and why ‘it’s OK to feel different’
- As an Asian-American growing up in Kansas, Tiffany Day used music to fit in. Her songs led to her undertaking The Gratitude Tour – which she organised herself
- Following the release of a film made about the tour, which won an award at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Day talks about finding herself, and her mission
At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Tiffany Day – The Making of The Gratitude Tour, Day, a 23-year-old Chinese-American singer, confesses she had already racked up about US$10,000 in credit card debt for something that could well bomb.
“This tour is probably the one thing that I’ve worked hardest on,” she says. “I’m managing the tour and the logistic side of everything.”
Day reveals that she programmed the shows and the lighting and did all of her own costumes and make-up for the self-funded tour of North America that the film documents, “because I don’t have it in the budget to hire a stylist”.
“But if I’m gonna do this tour, I’m gonna do it right,” she adds.
Henry Thong, a Malaysian-Australian documentary filmmaker, met Day in 2021 through working with her on a web series.
