Carina Ho is a Bay Area-based indie electronic artist and producer who began creating work under the moniker ONIKHO shortly after life altering injury in 2014. Originally a classically trained pianist, she began to teach herself music production as she spent months recovering from her injuries. From the simple sketches of her earliest songs until now, she’s blended her classical roots with her influences from jazz, blues, and pop music into a sound best described as “electro-cinematic soul”.
Also a former professional dancer, ONIKHO uses dance choreography, video, and her original music as channels to advocate for positive representation of artists with disabilities. Seeing how underrepresented and stereotyped people with disabilities are in most areas of society, she often collaborates with other artists with disabilities to shine light on the beauty of disabled resilience.
ONIKHO has shared her work throughout the United States and internationally. Her dance short films have been shown in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Tiny Dance Film Festival. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Fellow and taught dance as a guest lecturer at the National Dance Conservatory EL SODRE in Montevideo, Uruguay.