The Malay 'lion dance dad' who started his own troupe at 18

Jamsairi 'Bobby' Kamaruddin fell in love with lion dance at age eight. Channel NewsAsia tells the story of how he's now running a successful troupe with his children and mostly Malay members, decades after that first spark. The performance art, rooted in Chinese culture, is being kept alive by this Malay family passing it to the next generation.

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