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24-year-old Yunalis Zarai could be in Malaysia right now. The singer could be swarmed by paparazzi, unable to leave her home without having her picture snapped. Or perhaps she might be in a law office… after all, she graduated with a J.D. five years ago. Rather, she’s on a Beverly Hills rooftop one recent March afternoon, feeling liberated, free and thoroughly content to be in a place where she’s none of the above… rather, just one more relatively unknown musician trying to make it in a city with no remorse.

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“I love it here,” Zarai, better known as genteel, satin-voiced singer/songwriter Yuna, says with a genuine smile. “It’s calm and people do their own thing.”

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Calm might not be a common descriptor for Los Angeles, but for Yuna  — a bona fide celebrity in her home country — it’s an escape grounded in passion. “A bunch of people (in Malaysia) were like, ‘Why would you want to go (to America)? Your career is big here,’” Yuna recalls. Her response was simple, blunt and honest: “It’s my dream.”

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Lo-fi. Artsy. Charming. It’s soft-spoken, yet big-voiced singer Yuna and she’s debuting her black-and-white video for “Decorate.”

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Check out other new album, single and video premieres at MySpace Music.

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