Friday February 9, 2007 Hong Kong HK Singers to Re-sing Late Singers' Songs to Fight Piracy The 2nd Annual Hong Kong Music Fair (HKMF), co-organized by The Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the IFPI, will be held on March 21 - 23, on the 7th floor of the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. The IFPI invited Kelly Chen, Eason Chan, Janice Wei, Miriam Yeung, Twins, Hins Cheung, Fiona Sit, Hacken Lee, Joey Yung, Karen Mok, and Leo Ku to re-sing songs by the late Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Roman Tam, and Beyond band member Wong Ka Kui's greatest hits. A CD will be released with the newly recorded songs and will be sold for $100 HKD per CD. Several thousand copies will be released and profits from the sales will go towards their Anti-Piracy Fund. Also, different artists will be performing on the 7th floor of the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre each night, and citizens are urged to go and see for themselves. credits: sina, asianfanatics.
I think this is a good idea--those old songs are quality! I just hope this era's singers can perform as well as the originals did.
it's nice they wanna try to fight piracy, and that they're using old classics to do it, but sigh, just reminds me of wut's gone... i dont think any of the current singers can sing like those who have passed away :(
^there are few singers atm who can sing as good i reckon anti piracy hmmm.... where will get my music from, when im not in hk!
leslie, maybe, because his singing was only so-so... but anita and roman? irreplaceable. no one comes close, imo. plus, i miss their songs and the style too... lyics and music is being written differently nowadays.
This is just sad. Can't sell their own music; so re-sing in the name of "fighting piracy"? that's just a bunch of BS!
