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FAVOURING THE LIMELIGHT FROM A YOUNG AGE, WILLIAM GAO IS NOW SET ON PLAYING HIS MOST IMPORTANT ROLE TO DATE: HIMSELF. CHATTING WITH HIS SISTER AND WASIA PROJECT BANDMATE OLIVIA HARDY, THE ACTOR AND MUSICIAN RETURNS TO HIS LONDON FAMILY HOME FOR ANOTHER RAW RECORDING SESSION.

William Gao appears on-screen first before beckoning his sister, Olivia Hardy, to join him on Zoom. He’s buttoned up in a yellow shirt, Hardy opting for a slouchy red tee, a juxtaposing outfit that helps to visualise Wasia Project: their alt-pop band which – created from their bedrooms – is currently streamed across 180 nations. Formed in 2019, Wasia Project began with a freewheeling blend of the brother-sister duo’s influences. Having grown up in a household underscored by music from the likes of Queen, ABBA and Frank Sinatra, the siblings soon developed a “Venn diagram” of tastes—some corresponding, and some worlds apart. “I don’t fuck with the organ,” Hardy reminds Gao. “See, I fuck with the organ,” he rebuttals.

Yet it is within this bluntly honest, sometimes opposing but always collaborative space that Wasia Project reaps its records. Garnering a 200K following and 8M Spotify streams since their debut, the band have established a reputation for creating authentic personal stories that fearlessly cut between genres—a style that earned them a young and exponentially growing fanbase.

Citing Billie Eilish’s analogy, the pair describe their songwriting as releasing pages of their personal journals for the world to see. And while studio sessions require them both to divulge their innermost thoughts and feelings, it’s 20-year-old actor and musician Gao under the spotlight today—his little sister already fine-tuned in her ability to coax his stories to the surface. They laugh, they get deep, they disagree then agree. They discuss Gao’s fast rise to fame, the unexpected take-off of their experimental projects and their “big plans” for the future. Talking from their London home where it all began, we find out how to correctly pronounce the band’s namesake, how to use “smorgasbord” in a sentence and why 17-year-old Hardy thinks her brother was born for the big screen…

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