Ginger Root (姜根) is an American indie soul music project from Huntington Beach, California, led by singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Cameron Lew (Chinese: 劉國明).

Lew has described the project's musical sound as "aggressive elevator soul", also citing inspiration as coming from groups such as Vulfpeck, Toro y Moi, White Denim, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Feist.

[3] On tour, Ginger Root also currently includes Lew's high school friends Matt Carney (drums) and Dylan Hovis (bass).

[6][7] In 2017, Lew began a weekly YouTube series called "Toaster Music" where he performed covers in his 2004 Honda Element.

Lew says the idea came to him from not wanting to do homework during the four hour break between his classes on Mondays at Chapman University, where he would record vocals, guitar, keyboard, bass, and drums in the backseat, mixing it on his laptop via the car stereo.

In December 2018, Ginger Root recorded a live session at Audiotree's studios in Chicago, playing five songs from Mahjong Room.

[22] The tracks are set in a fictitious 1983, where Ginger Root is asked to write and produce music for the up-and-coming Japanese pop idol, Kimiko Takeguchi.

The other songs released with the rest of the album are titled, "CM", "Kaze", "Giddy Up", "Think Cool", "Show 10", and "Take Me Back (Owakare No Jikan)".

[31] In a 2023 interview, Lew credited Showa-era Japanese culture, including City Pop artists YMO Taeko Onuki and Tatsuro Yamashita, as a primary influence and sense of belonging as an as an Asian-American.