We were lucky to catch up with Rica Tan recently and have shared our conversation below.
Rica, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s jump to the end – what do you want to be remembered for?
I really like this question. Although I am an ambivert (balance of an extrovert & introvert features) I love to celebrate and create space for others to just be. Life itself is hard, busy, and complicated; To have people gather together in one place, enjoy each other’s company is just feel special.
To answer your question, I guess; I wanted to be remember as a person who love life and appreciate life; not just for myself and my family, but towards people around me too. I want people to know that their life has meaning and purpose.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Since I was in my early age, I always know what I want…and know where I want to be…maybe not always but surely most of the time…and “Love” always has been the driving factor of my knowing and where I am heading. My mom introduced me to piano as a 5-year old, I immediately fell in love with the vast world of music and grew to appreciate its unique ability to transcend languages, cultures and characters to communicate love and sprinkle magic straight to every heart and soul. Since I founded Etude Entertainment: it has become real that this is my calling. With a little over 20 years of singing, writing, playing and producing, I made music my life’s PASSION. I have served over 500 weddings and events in my career, and I’m so thankful for every opportunity that we have. Etude has won “The Knot Best of 2019 -2020 Weddings”, “Wedding Wire’s Couple’s Choice Award 2018 & 2020” and has been featured on Associated Content from Yahoo!, VoyageATL, Style me pretty, White Magazine, Munaluchi Bride Magazine, Carats & Cake, California Wedding Day Magazine and many more.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I am an immigrant. I came to the United states with just $500. I think the resilience part of me it’s just there. I did not know the word at the time. When we experience stress we tend to go to our cave. Whatever that cave means. And that is ok, if we could get back up again and thrive. Being resilient is truly a long process. Whether you are going through a tough time or be prepare for future challenges, we all can build resilience maybe by finding our purpose over and over again, embracing change, taking action and committing.
Have you ever had to pivot?
If you ask small business owner about pivoting, I think every single of them will go back and tell their stories during covid.
The year of 2020 taught us so many things.To find wisdom in every unprecedented situations, courage to decide what’s best for clients and our company, and boldness to ‘stay true’ to what we believe is fair and the most importantly “To show up” in our community of vendors and clients.
There was so many wedding & event postponement, and people are trying to still have a wedding but with only less musicians or guests. In wedding music entertainment, I’ve seen some state are recovering quickly compare to the other state. 
Contact Info:
- Website: www.etudeentertainment.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/etudeentertainment/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EtudeEntertainment/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rica-tan-585109127/
Image Credits
Natasha Lois ENMUSE Photography + Cinematic