Kaila Yu
Birth nameElaine Yang
Birth dateMay 16, 1979 (age 47)
Birth placeTaipei, Taiwan
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA)
OccupationSinger, songwriter, actress
Websitekailayu.com

Kaila Yu is a Taiwanese American singer, songwriter, former model, and freelance journalist for The Rolling Stone, CNN, Glamour, and more.[1]

Life

She was formerly the lead singer for the all-Asian-American, female rock band Nylon Pink.[2] Yu is also one of the founders of the jewelry/fashion line "Hello Drama" which is affiliated with the Nylon Pink band and style.[3]

She has also been an import model and appeared in magazines including Stuff Magazine, Maxim, FHM and House of Roses.[4] Yu had a brief role as an Asian stripper in Dark Blue, appeared as a race girl in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and also hosted shows on channels such as MTV Asia, MTV Chi, Music Plus TV, TorqueTV, Octane TV and Ripe TV.[4]

Yu is a graduate of UCLA (with a degree in economics), after transferring there from the University of California, San Diego, where she initially majored in biology.[4][5]

Works

  • Wong, Kiki; Yu, Kaila (2019). 30-Day Travel Challenge: How To Make Your Travel Dreams A Reality. Amazon Digital Services . ISBN 978-1-7337676-0-6.[6]
  • Yu, Kaila (2025-08-19). Fetishized. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-593-72801-7.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ "Pardon Our Interruption"
  2. ^ AllKPop, Girl Pop Rock Band 'Nylon Pink' reveals English Cover of "Gee", Allkpop.com
  3. ^ Hellodrama.net
  4. ^ Id.
  5. ^ All Music, Kaila Yu Bio, AllMusic
  6. ^ Staff, G. G. M. (2022-01-27). "Tone Talk with Kiki Wong". Guitar Girl Magazine. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
  7. ^ MacDonald, Joan. "Kaila Yu's 'Fetishized' Examines Yellow Fever, Feminism And Beauty'". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  8. ^ Damatac, Jill (2025-08-19). "Book Review: 'Fetishized,' by Kaila Yu". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  9. ^ "My Reading Life: Fetishized author Kaila Yu reads and writes about body". debutiful. 2025-09-16. Retrieved 2025-10-29.