A few weeks ago I blogged about my friend Roger Wang’s song “Love Scale” being picked by Cantopop King Jacky Cheung for his jazz album “Private Corner” (released on 29th January 2010). Fast forward a few weeks later the music video is now out. Check it out!
張學友 【十二個音】MV
P/S: It’s Roger playing the guitar in the background.
When I had lunch with him a few days ago he told me he’s headed to Beijing to play for Jacky Cheung in a few weeks. As if this isn’t exciting enough, there’s one more announcement I’ll make shortly about what Roger is going to do in two weeks and it’s going to blow you all away. Wait for it…
Jacky Cheung's Jazz Album, released on 29th January 2010
Cantonese superstar Jacky Cheung (張學友), one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong’s vibrant entertainment industry has selected to use a song my friend and schoolmate Roger Wang wrote as part of his new jazz album entitled Private Corner (Released: 29 Jan 2010).
Roger composed ‘Love Scale’ for Double Take’s debut album, which was released in 2003 with Mia Palencia taking the vocals for the original English version. Seven years later, the track has been rendered in Cantonese to ‘十二個音’ and is finally having its moment of glory in the international scene.
It just blows my mind to think of the idolatry of Jacky Cheung in school, Roger’s lone madness with the guitar and the hundreds of times we’ve heard wannabes at karaoke bars yelp Jacky’s songs…
The fact that the ‘God of Songs’ is now singing a tune written by Roger is amazing and unbelievable! I bet Roger is pinching himself now; he shares how it happened on his blog. I’m beaming with pride for him. Congratulations Roger… you deserve it!
