PBS Wisconsin Originals

Sing Yee Her sings "No Lub Siab" by Maly Vue in Hmong

Sing Yee Her

My name is Sing Yee Her and I go to Eau Claire North High School. Hmong music and dance have always been a big part of Sing Yee Her's life. You can just express your feelings and stuff and let out your emotions. And, I guess, you're just like in your own world when you're dancing. A world that got even bigger for Sing when she started competing in local Hmong music competitions.

Sing Yee

Couple years ago, I went to my first singing competition.

sings "Kev Hlub Ntawm Kuv Niam" by Koob Tsheej Xyooj

Sing Yee

I was really nervous. And then, like two months later, I signed up for another singing competition, which is in Eau Claire. I ended up doing really well

laughs

Sing Yee

and I ended up winning first place. So, that was really exciting for me. Off the stage, Sing's attention is focused on sports. She's a three-sport athlete for the Eau Claire North High School Huskies.

Sing Yee Her

Some of my favorite memories from high school are... getting on varsity soccer my freshman year. That was, like, one of my goals to get on varsity for soccer. But like many athletes across the state, I'm going to miss, like, my underclassmen because I have a lot of underclassmen friends. Some of them I play soccer with, and since, like, we didn't get our season this year, like it's real. I'm getting sad talking about it, but I just wish, like, I could play ball with them again.

sniffs, laughs lightly

Sing Yee Her

A message that I want to give to us seniors is just stay positive in life. Even though our senior year didn't end how we wanted, there's still going to be better things for us later in life. So, just stay positive.