Kelvin Avon: Beijing's Soul Sister Tia Ray.... What a voice!

So... I just got back from 6 days in Beijing. It was my first time to go so I was looking forward to the trip. The main purpose of the trip was to work with an artist called Tia Ray... and wow... what a singer. A very, very talented young lady. It was a real pleasure to work with. The day I arrived was also the AnD launch with Tom.com in Beijing and Tia was performing so I went down to say hi to all the AnD guys (Pat, Raffi, Steven) and also Terence, Daniel, Andrew, and Conroy. What a great bunch of guys... I gotta say, all the AnD people have made me so welcome in HK and also in Beijing.Here are a couple of pics from the night Me and the beautiful Tia Ray.. hey that's my hat!!!

Man.. this girl can SING!Aww... is that smile just for me?! lol

Backstage with Tia and MC Jin... OMG!Terence, Daniel, Andrew & Conroy talking after the performancesSo.... the after party.... On a rootop in Beijing.. nice!

Hey Patrick... MGMT!!! You sang it to me all night..lol

Ah... finally got my hat back!!Well... that was the first night. I was nursing a little hangover the next day and we had to get up early to go to the Forbidden City. I was looking forward to this as had read a lot about it. Tia come along and also the talented for Nick Wong who came up with me from HK to play keys on the tracks.Me and Nick outside the FCTaking a break in the Beijing Sun!

Why do I always look crap in photos?!

I'm so small!!!!

Tia getting ready before the evening studio session!!

FC baby!!So far it looks like I have been doing no work.. work was still to come. We spent 5 days in Universal Records Studio (Thanks!) but as we were working in the evening there was no A/C (they turn off the A/C in the building after 6pm)... So begin 5 evenings of profuse sweating alongside serious creativity.. I gotta say that ain't a great mix but we made 2 amazing tracks. Hopefully I will post some little snippets of the tracks we did if Tia's management let me...you really won't believe how good she is until you hear them!Some photos of the sessionsNick and Tia deep on songwritingRunning the session!!

Seriously.. this girl can SING!!

Tia getting some help with the Mandarin lyricsAt the end of 5 days.. This is how hard I work with vocalists... Tia will probably kill me for putting this up... but I just had to! lolAnyway... what a trip. Really enjoyed myself... got to see the sites and made some great music. I look forward to my next trip (except for the bumpy flight!!). And stay tuned for some GREAT new music from Tia... she really is one to watch over the next year!! Ask Raffi (Etchy) as he stopped by to have a listen.www.alivenotdead.com/tiarayIf only.... (I would be really short if I was in the NBA!)

Soon Tia.. Soon!!

I WANNA SING!!

Yes.. we climbed the Great Wall... and I didn't buy one of those tourist T-ShirtsGot home to my beautiful daughter and put her in the chinese pyjama's I bought her!! So cute