TOKiMONSTA Could Not Understand Music After Brain Surgery

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A woman with blue hair and a flower in her hair struggles to understand music after brain surgery.

Born as Jennifer Lee in the Southern California city of Torrance, TOKiMONSTA is one of the most creative artists in electronic dance music, especially when it comes to making instrumental Hip-Hop. She’s also one of the top Asian-American EDM artists, particularly when she received a Grammy Awards nomination in 2019 for her 2017 album, Lune Rouge. What many people, including her beloved fans, do not know is that she had suffered from aphasia, which is a loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage. According to a recent article from NPR, the level of TOKiMONSTA’s aphasia was so severe that she…