Helena Gao, the Midnight Sun songwriter going viral in China

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“I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Copenhagen… but it’s pretty white,” says Danish-born, half-Chinese singer-producer Helena Gao, laughing in between spoonfuls of froyo in the late-night Shanghai café she’s dialled in from. “My hometown of Aarhus is even more homogenous, and being a minority in such a homogenous place makes you wish you could just conform to that homogeneity. I spent so long trying to suppress the Chinesehellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (7 images)nbsp;