the wayward child sees the light

chinese orchestra has always been in my blood,
my dad plays the erhu and flute,
my mum plays the pipa,
and of course in the early courting days
my dad pretended to learn the pipa from my mum
just to spend time with her :)

i think this performance made my parents very very happy :)



i was given the chance to perform with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra,
and one of my original songs 心型空洞 was arranged by Tan Kah Yong, in full-blown Chinese Orchestra style!!!


Kah Yong and his wife caught in the audience :)
It was great working with him the 1st time, and I was thrilled by the sound of my own song :)


with Quek Ling Kiong the conductor... he is awesommmee!
Super nice, with such flair and style in conducting


during rehearsals :)


i also played the erhu on the traditional piece called 赛马
(playing in front of the full-time pros is no joke!!)




my sweet papa


the end of a great experience!


my darling mummy





sneak of my song 心型空洞 (which will be in my upcoming EP!)

video courtesy of Evonne!

my only regret is that this chinese orchestra version will only be available as a live fuzzy youtube one.

ps. love the 萧 solo in the interlude!!!


check this out

My song is officially A Hole in Heart Shape.
Ok, the original meaning of Heart-Shaped Hole doesn't sound terrific either.

And it is

"a popular song composed by Tay Kewei, this piece expresses the laments of the heartbroken female lead who can't bear to give up her lover who has continuously let her down."

My first official introduction of my song on print!
haha


Thanks to Eriol, Nicholas Tan and many more for the lovely photos!
And to everyone who dropped by! :)

月亮代表谁的心 - 陶喆

tribute to David Tao :)

I performed this classic live with the all-star band
at the Esplanade Outdoor Opening Concert,
complete with an erhu intro.

Erhu solo -


and the song itself :)


thanks to xt for the videos!

events galore

thrilled to be part of the launch of the
Omega - Official Timekeeper for Olympics Exhibition at Paragon :)


chinois getup in honour of Beijing!


the event was graced by the likes of Ivy Lee, Kym Ng, Felicia Chin etc
and right after the chinese drums solo
Dennis and I opened the show with our erhu-violin duet!


We performed the original piece written by Bass Maestro Ken Chung from KL,
a piece entitled "Son of A Chinese".

I love this song!
It will be in Dennis Lau's album :)


my recent trip to KL involved intensive recording sessions for
"Son of A Chinese" :)


Dennis - erhu producer


Joe - sound engineer



Dennis wrote a charity song for Independent Pet Rescuers in Malaysia,
and myself + Joe penned the lyrics for this song called Kindness :)

This song will involve several singers from KL,
and I recorded some parts as well :)



I also met Pete Teo,
a fascinating singer-songwriter from KL who is making it big in Korea! :D
Love his style, do check out his music!



Anyway back to the show!


we had an awesome time, thanks to shirley and jasmine!


with music buddies, the usual suspects ;P


matrimonial moments ;P


chief photographer Willy from LiveStudios,
which makes every event so memorable!

Of course we had to max out on camwhoring with LiveStudios around :p


With David from LiveStudios as well :)


just had to...







also performed for Magnum's latest icecream launch,

I am Eva and I can't resist Magnum.....







was also part of the Andrew Lum's New Asia band
featuring a stellar cast of
Jessica on sanxian
Colin on bass/Chinese flute
Joe on percussion
Zubir on gambus
Andrew on guitar


which opened for Singapore International Water Week,
@ the forum for international delegates.
VVVIPs included Lee Hsien Loong, Teo Chee Hian, etc!


right before show :)


during rehearsal :)







oh, and singfest, are you going?
i am soooooo psyched about the 3 August show!
Alicia Keys, Jason Mraz, Stacie Orrico, PUSSYCAT DOLLS!!! HAHA!

881

881 has been making waves in the local film scene,
I haven't seen it yet
but I will. :)

More importantly to me, the soundtrack is the work of local music geniuses. Eric Ng, Wu Jiahui, Bang Wenfu... many more :)
i had the honour of playing a very small erhu part in one of the songs called Jing Lang Cries or something like that.. when it's just erhu and piano. :)



the melody + the vocals + vocal technique = perfect.
by jim "slimface" lim, my idol!


i tried very hard to find a picture of Jim looking normal.
This was the only one - haha!

during JJ's concert while we were backing vocalists...
and he looks really intense while he's at it.. hehe

and he looks normal here BECAUSE he didn't know I was taking a photo!
Otherwise it would be funny faces galore!!!
He is really funny la!

But with all due respect,
he writes the most beautiful and touching songs :)

i found another one of David and Jim
hard at work during rehearsals
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.
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playing PSP.
i had no gadgets then, armed only with a book, but now HAHA! I have NDS!

we (david tan and i) always tease him by singing all his hit songs
and he would be very paiseh .. "eh thanks la thanks la.. okk..enough..."
favourite lines to belt to him...

songs like yanzi's

"我的爱... 明明还在,转身了才明白该把幸福找回来~~..而不是各自缅怀"

dreamzFM's

"除了想你~~...除了爱你~~...我什么什么都愿意..."

and lately amei's

"我要快乐...我要能睡得安稳,有些人...不抱了才温暖,离开了才不恨,我早~~应该割舍"

and of course

"我需~要的平静,是我将来看电影~...带着一颗平常心~...不必为谁心碎闭上眼睛"

the list is endless!!
and now I have a new song to sing to him

"原来思念也有意义,有爱与勇气~~...我不在身边,就让思念代替~~~~~.."

recordings, session work, jingle production :)

I've been...

*singing demos for local songwriters,

*backing vocals for JJ Lin's albums,
Mediacorp drama theme songs,

*sung jingles for Econ Minimart, Disney Channel, 100.3FM

*wrote and sang jingles for OCBC



recorded sessions as an erhu player for Chen Weilian, Daren Tan, 881 albums etc


always interested to do more :)
and open to new projects!


drop me a mail!