From Orange County, CA, indie jazz-pop artist Kai Tea began performing classical piano and Chinese Folk Dance at the age of 6.

In 2010, she founded the Chinese Performing Arts troupe with diverse members of dance, music, and martial arts. In 2012, Kai co-founded Trogons A Cappella, the first East Asian A Cappella group at her alma mater, University of Southern California. The group continues to create Asian American representation across YouTube, bilingual commercials, Mandarin TV shows, and in feature film soundtracks like Crazy Rich Asians (USA). Additionally, as an Asia Pacific Arts red carpet host, Kai covered events for Ming Na Wen, Kina Grannis, Jeremy Lin, Wong Fu, KevJumba, and George Takei. 

Kai was a featured solo artist on various Mandarin television shows like Voice of China and ETTV top idol as well as films like Another Beautiful Day (USA), The Home Is Where the Sunsets (USA), and Boy from the Lullaby (USA). She has performed for/alongside Jason Chen, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Sam Tsui, Dumbfoundead, DanakaDan, Sorah Yang, and Priska.

About her eclectic tastes, ETTV judge Jason Chen says, "it's like an X-Factor. If someone explained that, I'd be confused. But seeing it I liked it."