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Hannah Bussiere Kim (born October 3, 1996), better known by her stage name Luna Li, is a Canadian, Toronto-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bussiere Kim rose to prominence after a series of videos of her home-performed multi-instrumental jam sessions, featuring her playing the harp, keyboard, guitar, and violin, became viral on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

Bussiere Kim began writing music under Veins (stylized as VEINS), and released the record Moon Garden in 2015. As Luna Li, she self-released her debut extended play Opal Angel in 2017. After signing to AWAL Recordings and In Real Life, she released the jams extended play, a compilation of the viral jam sessions she composed during the pandemic, in 2021. Her debut record as Luna Li, Duality, was released on AWAL (Canada) and In Real Life (Rest of the world) in 2022.

Early life
Bussiere Kim was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Korean-Canadian heritage and cites her background as a major influence on her songwriting.

Bussiere Kim grew up with classical training in piano and violin, eventually also becoming proficient in harp, electric guitar, bass, and drums. She attended Classical Music Conservatory in Toronto, where her mother and mother's partner are co-directors. She originally attended McGill University in Montreal to study violin, but dropped out after a semester to pursue her own songwriting and to start her own rock band in the Toronto music scene. According to Bussiere Kim, “When I was first starting out, I thought, ‘Rock and roll is cool, the violin is not.’”

2015–2017: Veins
After returning from Montreal to Toronto in 2015, Bussiere Kim started the garage rock group Veins, the name of which came from a poem written during high school. She concurrently attended Seneca College's one-year Independent Music Production program, graduating in 2016. While Veins was initially conceived as a personal project, the group grew into a six-member live band that performed at local venues in Toronto and Montreal. In May 2015, the group's debut album Moon Garden was released on Bandcamp. Though they had not reached out to media, the record received a warm reception from press and reviewer outlets. In January 2017, they played their last show under the name Veins. According to Bussiere Kim, the group had intended to change their name since 2016, partly since “everyone thought Veins would be like a metal or a dark hard rock band, which it wasn't.” She and her bandmates eventually decided on ‘Luna Li’, which fit the natural imagery and themes in her songwriting and production.