Hacken soundless escalator
Sunday, October 15 2006
In life, everyone will have something that is very precious, what will that be for you? To me, it couldbe a dog I had for over 10 years; to you, could be something that your mom have left for you; to him,it is his other half. If there is a day, when you will lose your most precious thing, what will you do?I think for most people they will think, "How much money will I need to get it back?" Unfortunately,not everything can be bought with money.
Two years ago, Hacken almost lost what god has given him, "flawless" voice, it is like a soccer playerwho is hurt and can not go back onto the field to play, in the midst, there is full of worries, frustration, and anger, is it really time for retirement? Hacken tells his story, how does he overcome,his heart does not want to be a sick person, continue to sing happily, continue to be the "King ofBest Selling Albums."
Over 1000 days of anxiety, I am very lucky that I am a optimistic person, very unlikely that anxietywill make me lose sleep, during the days of the past two years, I went through the dark period of life,making me realize the preciousness of health. So if you ask me what is three things most precous to me?First is health, without health it is impossible to do anything else, at the time I didn't speak aboutit, is all because I didn't want everyone to look at me as a sick person, and besides, I had thepositive attitude that I will be okay.
Long period of "forcing songs" caused the problem
This happened about 3 years ago, Alan Tam and I was constantly doing the "Left Alan Right Lee Concert",definitely did earn a lot of money, but I lost my health, because my vocal cord is constantly usedharshly, in addition I had numerous duets with Alan, eventually I learned to "force songs" (??) likehim, as a result my vocal cord is damaged, after awhile of hiding, the damage become apparent. When Iwas sick, I thought it was just an infection on the vocal cord, sometimes it is okay, and sometimes itis not okay, affecting my performances, everytime I sing live, I will ask myself if I should sing till I am off key? or should I just lip-sync? But how can I accept lip-sync? So I just stubbornly resist iteach time.
After losing beautiful voice, then realize how precious
It was the worst when I was the performer for Miss Hong Kong two years ago, I don't know if you allremember or not, everytime when I have to sing the high-key I couldn't sing it, then I knew it was a bigproblem, it's acutally not as easy as just seeing the doctor and resting for a few days. After I wentbackstage, I thought: "Is it times-up for my vocal cord? So god wants to take it back?" Worries, sadness,and the not ready feelings all came rushing out. I used to think that the voice I was born with willalways be with me for life, never thought that my voice could be gone, its like when people is livingthe life of happiness, they never know it, but once it is lost, then they regret. You might be thinking"only losing voice, there is plenty of people in misery", Of course I understand, but to me, it is themost valuable, most precious, it is what god has given me, the voice brings me too much, including mycareer, money, my beautiful life, who would think that the voice would leave me? And so, I tried to findmany possibilities to cure/heal it, using nearly two years to cure my vocal cord in low-key; And I alsobelieved that god wanted the voice to stay with me, my positivity, sickness is easy to cure, till nowI still have my voice. Now I will take good care of myself, I have a few chinese medicine friends who have become my walking x-ray machine.
In life, my second most precious thing, definitely is love, including family, relationship, and friendship.To me, family is very precious, which is why, unless it is definitely required of work, I want to getofffrom work at 7pm to go home and eat dinner, and I try not to bring home my work stress. When there istime I will play golf with my dad, and then play mahjong with my mom.
Taking time to be with family
I don't know how to express my internal feelings, but as long as I care for my family, then I don't haveto worry how I express my care for them. If so happens that you read this article, I want to tell you,you can never earn enough money, unless you really have to rely on money to have food, this I can nothelp you; otherwise, try your best to take time every week to eat with your family, to the elders, themost valuable gift is not the ginseng goods, but is your presence at home eating.
Within the year to have the "Great Event of Life"
Everyone wants to know when Emily and I will have the "Great Event of Life", please no need to worry, Iam a responsible person, everything is going as planned, within this year I will complete it. But I wantto say, marriage is not like "Pleasure and Leisure" (show on TVB) teaching you how to cook, don't needto tell everyone the steps, or when to put in the oil, or sugar, and how long to cook for, I am justanother human being, So I may not be able to greet all media or show off my pictures; I don't know ifthis is called low-key, but also don't need to be loud about it.
The third most precious thing in life of course is music, because it is my career, which is also my life.Being in the showbiz for close to 20 years, Hong Kong's music industry haven't really improved dramatically,especially the melodies is very similar, in contrast, the arrangement of tune and lyrics have improvedgreatly; Even though I have been through many changes, but my vocals will change once every 3-4 years,this change is all through the hear, Now if you ask me to sing "Summer Story", it will not have the samefeeling from before. For sometime, I thought that if I could sing high notes I was really good, thenwhen I sang "One Life Never Change" and "Red Day" it was especially high-keyed; also tried vibrating myvocals, during recording, I set a standard that every note must be perfect before I accept it, just toprove that I am talented singer.
Love wins over the Skills of Singing
Until about 4, 5 years ago, I came upon a changing point in life, I realized, "actually music is a formof communication between the singer and the fans, it is not about teaching them how to sing, but it isa way the singer pass information to the fans so they would understand". During this time, I listened toa lot of Leslie Cheung's songs, I thought there were some places where he could have perfected even more,but he decided to just let it flow, letting the audience feel good. Leslie is definitely a singer thatsings with feel, listening to his songs, I learned to sing with my feelings as the most important, thenpeople will also understand and agree with me, But why is it that Hacken always put skills as priority?That's why I have stepped back and started to change this habit, of course the more people go through,then will realize that singing is better when it is simpler.
"Three Stars" New Album sets new standards
On the last album "Hacken Concert Hall" with beautiful recording, clear crisp sound, and Hacken'sbeautiful voice/performance, also put into the Hi-Fi industry, selling over 80,000 copies, at this timewhen album sales is so dead, this definitely starts a new path. So Universal Records once again bringsthe whole crew to South Korea to produce "Hacken Concert Hall II", within 4 days time, along with SouthKorea's 7 well-known musicians collaborate, of the 7, there is one that many people know, it is SouthKorea's Harpist K, but the viola, the violin, the cello, the accordian, the saxophone, is also high-levelmusicians, Will also record AV to show everyone the collaboration process.
Last time "Sentiment" was a big hit, it is also one of the reasons for going to South Korea; but not tooverlook, the main part still involves "Three Stars" as Hong Kong's specialty, Hacken specially recommends"Sky Water, city", he says, "I finally found sparks with Lam Jik, everytime I listen to the lyrics I ammoved, looking at Lam Jik's lyrics, I really don't know how to write lyrics anymore."
Translated by: Jane
Original Article
In life, everyone will have something that is very precious, what will that be for you? To me, it couldbe a dog I had for over 10 years; to you, could be something that your mom have left for you; to him,it is his other half. If there is a day, when you will lose your most precious thing, what will you do?I think for most people they will think, "How much money will I need to get it back?" Unfortunately,not everything can be bought with money.
Two years ago, Hacken almost lost what god has given him, "flawless" voice, it is like a soccer playerwho is hurt and can not go back onto the field to play, in the midst, there is full of worries, frustration, and anger, is it really time for retirement? Hacken tells his story, how does he overcome,his heart does not want to be a sick person, continue to sing happily, continue to be the "King ofBest Selling Albums."
Over 1000 days of anxiety, I am very lucky that I am a optimistic person, very unlikely that anxietywill make me lose sleep, during the days of the past two years, I went through the dark period of life,making me realize the preciousness of health. So if you ask me what is three things most precous to me?First is health, without health it is impossible to do anything else, at the time I didn't speak aboutit, is all because I didn't want everyone to look at me as a sick person, and besides, I had thepositive attitude that I will be okay.
Long period of "forcing songs" caused the problem
This happened about 3 years ago, Alan Tam and I was constantly doing the "Left Alan Right Lee Concert",definitely did earn a lot of money, but I lost my health, because my vocal cord is constantly usedharshly, in addition I had numerous duets with Alan, eventually I learned to "force songs" (??) likehim, as a result my vocal cord is damaged, after awhile of hiding, the damage become apparent. When Iwas sick, I thought it was just an infection on the vocal cord, sometimes it is okay, and sometimes itis not okay, affecting my performances, everytime I sing live, I will ask myself if I should sing till I am off key? or should I just lip-sync? But how can I accept lip-sync? So I just stubbornly resist iteach time.
After losing beautiful voice, then realize how precious
It was the worst when I was the performer for Miss Hong Kong two years ago, I don't know if you allremember or not, everytime when I have to sing the high-key I couldn't sing it, then I knew it was a bigproblem, it's acutally not as easy as just seeing the doctor and resting for a few days. After I wentbackstage, I thought: "Is it times-up for my vocal cord? So god wants to take it back?" Worries, sadness,and the not ready feelings all came rushing out. I used to think that the voice I was born with willalways be with me for life, never thought that my voice could be gone, its like when people is livingthe life of happiness, they never know it, but once it is lost, then they regret. You might be thinking"only losing voice, there is plenty of people in misery", Of course I understand, but to me, it is themost valuable, most precious, it is what god has given me, the voice brings me too much, including mycareer, money, my beautiful life, who would think that the voice would leave me? And so, I tried to findmany possibilities to cure/heal it, using nearly two years to cure my vocal cord in low-key; And I alsobelieved that god wanted the voice to stay with me, my positivity, sickness is easy to cure, till nowI still have my voice. Now I will take good care of myself, I have a few chinese medicine friends who have become my walking x-ray machine.
In life, my second most precious thing, definitely is love, including family, relationship, and friendship.To me, family is very precious, which is why, unless it is definitely required of work, I want to getofffrom work at 7pm to go home and eat dinner, and I try not to bring home my work stress. When there istime I will play golf with my dad, and then play mahjong with my mom.
Taking time to be with family
I don't know how to express my internal feelings, but as long as I care for my family, then I don't haveto worry how I express my care for them. If so happens that you read this article, I want to tell you,you can never earn enough money, unless you really have to rely on money to have food, this I can nothelp you; otherwise, try your best to take time every week to eat with your family, to the elders, themost valuable gift is not the ginseng goods, but is your presence at home eating.
Within the year to have the "Great Event of Life"
Everyone wants to know when Emily and I will have the "Great Event of Life", please no need to worry, Iam a responsible person, everything is going as planned, within this year I will complete it. But I wantto say, marriage is not like "Pleasure and Leisure" (show on TVB) teaching you how to cook, don't needto tell everyone the steps, or when to put in the oil, or sugar, and how long to cook for, I am justanother human being, So I may not be able to greet all media or show off my pictures; I don't know ifthis is called low-key, but also don't need to be loud about it.
The third most precious thing in life of course is music, because it is my career, which is also my life.Being in the showbiz for close to 20 years, Hong Kong's music industry haven't really improved dramatically,especially the melodies is very similar, in contrast, the arrangement of tune and lyrics have improvedgreatly; Even though I have been through many changes, but my vocals will change once every 3-4 years,this change is all through the hear, Now if you ask me to sing "Summer Story", it will not have the samefeeling from before. For sometime, I thought that if I could sing high notes I was really good, thenwhen I sang "One Life Never Change" and "Red Day" it was especially high-keyed; also tried vibrating myvocals, during recording, I set a standard that every note must be perfect before I accept it, just toprove that I am talented singer.
Love wins over the Skills of Singing
Until about 4, 5 years ago, I came upon a changing point in life, I realized, "actually music is a formof communication between the singer and the fans, it is not about teaching them how to sing, but it isa way the singer pass information to the fans so they would understand". During this time, I listened toa lot of Leslie Cheung's songs, I thought there were some places where he could have perfected even more,but he decided to just let it flow, letting the audience feel good. Leslie is definitely a singer thatsings with feel, listening to his songs, I learned to sing with my feelings as the most important, thenpeople will also understand and agree with me, But why is it that Hacken always put skills as priority?That's why I have stepped back and started to change this habit, of course the more people go through,then will realize that singing is better when it is simpler.
"Three Stars" New Album sets new standards
On the last album "Hacken Concert Hall" with beautiful recording, clear crisp sound, and Hacken'sbeautiful voice/performance, also put into the Hi-Fi industry, selling over 80,000 copies, at this timewhen album sales is so dead, this definitely starts a new path. So Universal Records once again bringsthe whole crew to South Korea to produce "Hacken Concert Hall II", within 4 days time, along with SouthKorea's 7 well-known musicians collaborate, of the 7, there is one that many people know, it is SouthKorea's Harpist K, but the viola, the violin, the cello, the accordian, the saxophone, is also high-levelmusicians, Will also record AV to show everyone the collaboration process.
Last time "Sentiment" was a big hit, it is also one of the reasons for going to South Korea; but not tooverlook, the main part still involves "Three Stars" as Hong Kong's specialty, Hacken specially recommends"Sky Water, city", he says, "I finally found sparks with Lam Jik, everytime I listen to the lyrics I ammoved, looking at Lam Jik's lyrics, I really don't know how to write lyrics anymore."
Translated by: Jane
Original Article
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1 Comments:
WOW. thank you, JANE for this long interview!!
health & family is important!!! everyone remember!!!
i never knew his vocal chord problem was so serious!!! thank goodness he got cured and his health is much better!! :)
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kate, at 18/10/06 7:02 PM
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