Blog entry

Previous |

Next |

All

Sandy Lam Press Conference

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 3:05PM / News / Members only
5 comments

So my journey with Sandy Lam continues, after already working for the past 2 months on Sandy’s new and exciting album, Sandy asked me to work on re-arranging some of her songs for her upcoming concerts in September at Kitec in Kowloon Bay. So yesterday I was aksed to attend the Press Conference at Kitec alongside Anthony Lun, Jun Kung, and Chris Polanco (the full musical arrangement team for Sandy’s concert).

After rushing around Central trying to find a nice shirt (in my size its pretty hard) I managed to grab a lift with Jun Kung up to the event. I dragged alongside Spencer Douglass as my photographer/assistant to help me out.

After a briefing with the production time we were stored away in the green room, Sandy popped in looking absolutely stunning and said high to all of us. We chatted for a while and then Sandy was whisked off to stand in front of the growing number of press in the main Marquee.

After about 30 mins or so we were taken backstage and waited for out turn to be introduced. Anthony was brought on first as he has worked with Sandy for many years both as a musical director and producer. Then it was my turn to get on stage, I gotta admit I was kind of nervous. I am very much a behind the scenes guy and getting on stage or in front of camera always gives me the screaming hibee gibees.

But it wasn’t as bad as I thought, the host Derek got Sandy to introduce me and give a little background on who I am and want I was doing in the concert. Then Chris and Jun were brought on in that order. Once on stage we were asked how we met Sandy and to speak a little about ourselves. Even though most of it was in Cantonese both Sandy and Jun spoke very highly of me which I was very grateful for. We had a lot of fun (as you can see from the photo) and I started to relax.

Next up was Chris had prepared a small sample of the Latin flavoured arrangement he is doing for Sandy and we were then handed bits of percussion and so ensued an impromptu performance with everyone on stage. At the end we all stood together and for some photos. I wish I had actually worn my sunglasses then as the flashes from all the photographers almost blinded me. I was seeing little white spots for about 10 minutes afterwards.

Anyway thanks to Sandy and all her team for including and giving me some good local press, also thanks for Jun and Lorna for getting me up there on time, and last but not least thanks for Spencer for getting in the press pit and getting some great photos, afterwards Spen felt it had to put on a tough face to next to me and Chris.

1,161 views

Entry comments (5)

Please login or sign up for FREE in order to add a comment.
Justin Lim
posted on Thursday, Aug 4, 2011 3:06PM [Report]

good goin man!
Derrick Fong
posted on Tuesday, Aug 2, 2011 12:51AM [Report]

Awesome dude!
Joe Fiorello
posted on Sunday, Jul 31, 2011 6:41PM [Report]

Sounds like an awesome musical combo. Definitely want to check out how it all sounds. Nice!
rottendoubt
posted on Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 2:14AM [Report]

nice!! go ka!
Etchy
posted on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 3:47PM [Report]

pretty awesome! Chris is really cool, he and Jun make a fun team.

Blog entries More entries >

Joey Yung Official MV Link

Monday, Jan 30, 2012 4:47PM (1 comment)
Joey Yung Music Video (容祖兒蜉蝣)

Friday, Nov 25, 2011 7:05PM (5 comments)
Joey Yung… Something different.

Tuesday, Aug 9, 2011 2:46AM (8 comments)
Sandy Lam In The House!!

Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 8:17PM (1 comment)
"Fantasy" New Single by Bashy released 19th Sept

Saturday, Sep 18, 2010 2:03AM (5 comments)

Kelvin Avon

Stats

Kelvin Avon (aka Afreex) grew up in Hong Kong and started his interest in music from the young age of 6, when he started playing the trumpet...
More

Kelvin Avon (aka Afreex) grew up in Hong Kong and started his interest in music from the young age of 6, when he started playing the trumpet. He bought his first synthesizer and drum machine when he was 12 and he hasn't looked back since. Trained at Massachusetts Communications College. Boston, USA as a Sound Engineer, Kelvin began his musical career as a Mastering Engineer in 1999 for Promo Only, a US based music promotions company.

Emerging from the UK's underground Urban music scene, Kelvin has written and produced with a variety of UK Urban artists such as Jamelia, Swiss, Cassius Henry, Legend aka Kamakazi, Maxwell D, Shola Ama and many more. He has also expanded into the mainstream market, working regularly with artists in Sweden for Warner Chappell and as well as with songwriters such as Curtis Richardson (Jennifer Lopez, Joss Stone), Celetia Martin (Groove Armada), Sandra Nordstrum (Celine Dion/Girls Aloud), Kenisha Pratt (Brandy, Toni Braxton) & Charlie Brown.

In 2005 Kelvin's production company, Chewatribe, put together the UK's biggest collaboration CD, Union Black which won an Urban Music Award 2005 for the Best Compilation Over 25 exclusive tracks featuring collaborations with artists such as Omar, Rhian Benson, Cassius Henry, Swiss (So Solid), Don-E, Sway, Shola Ama, Baby Blue, J2K, Maxwell D, Sway, Kele Le Roc and many more, produced by UK producers.

Afreex tracks are all about the club; incorporating all elements of music, from Ragga to Rock, Hip Hop to Soul, RnB to Dance. He has also worked with US artists such as P.Diddy, Mario, Erykah Badu, Nelly, Lumidee, Baby Bash, Amp Fiddler and many more. His unique blend of sound, which appeals to both the US and Europe, has caught the attention of the industry peeps on both sides of the Atlantic.

He has mixed many albums including the debut album for no.1 Russian Hip Hop outfit Banderos (Universal) and the debut single through Polydor of underground sensation & MOBO winners N-Dubz. He then went on to work with N-Dubz on their debut album “Uncle B” which sold over 500,000 copies in the UK. In 2009 Kelvin worked with N-Dubz again on their new album “Against All Odds” which reached No.5 in the UK charts and has sold over 600,000 copies to date.

Other clients Kelvin has worked for include all the major labels and many independent labels in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia. Recently, Kelvin has also worked with artists in SE Asia such as Van Ness Wu (吴建豪), Sandy Lam (林忆莲), Michael Wong (王敏德), Jun King (恭硕良), Joey Yung (容祖兒) and many more.

Broadening his scope to also include multi-media, Kelvin was also one of the Musical Directors for hip hop theatre show 'BoxBeat' in 2003 held at Sadlers Wells in London, and produced music for the renowned Swedish Hip Hop Dance Company, Bounce Streetdance Company.

In 2007 Kelvin was flown to Moscow to be the Musical Director for the European Tour of Russia’s biggest male artist, Sergey Lazarev. Recently he has also placed original music for Sony Playstation games, commercial advertisements, as well as Hollywood movies.
More
Occupation: Music Producer , Composer , Sound Engineer
Gender: Male
Total visits: 46,252