Saturday April 14, 2007 Hong Kong The music industry is filled with artists with good faces, but if you only use that standard to look at Khalil Fong, you might miss out on such an attractive voice. Although his album is produced in Hong Kong, Khalil was born in Hawaii, grew up in Shanghai, and persists in only singing Mandarin songs. If it wasn't that he moved to Hong Kong where he entered the showbiz, his album wouldn’t even "smell" like Hong Kong K songs. Khalil is adept in being a lyricist, composer, producer, arranger, and performer. In the past 10 years of the Hong Kong music industry, Khalil is one of the greatest contributions, who is skilled in all aspects. For Jacky Cheung's newest album, he composed "You Yi Ge Di Fang" (有一個地方), which is a graceful song that caused many to notice his name. His compositions from his own album show more of his talents. Ai Ai Ai's (愛愛愛) melody is smooth and Su Li Zhen (蘇麗珍) is a lively song. This song is about the emotional relationship between Su Li Zhen and Zhou Mu Yun in Wong Kar Wai's movie "In the Mood for Love". Lam Jik also helped Khalil write three good songs, Si Ren You (四人遊), Ge Shou Yu Mo Ter (歌手與模特兒」), and Shi Ren He Qing Ren (詩人的情人). Two songs that he took care of everything by himself is Shou Tuo Shou (手拖手) and Tou Xiao (偷笑). Soothing female vocals was added to Chun Feng Chui (春風吹之吹吹風), which was from his first album. Music that incorporates a Chinese taste has been popular these couple of years. Jay Chou's “Dong Feng Po” (東風破), JJ Lin's “Chang You Zhong Guo” (唱遊中國), and Kenji Wu's “Jiang Jun Lin” (將軍令) are all rhythm blues with a bit of hip hop Chinese flavor added. In Khalil's Ai Ai Ai (愛愛愛), the lyrics mentioned old songs such as "桃花賊" and "紫玉釵". In “Chun Feng Chui”, it mentioned "玉門關". His songs are filled with Chinese elements that sound like old tunes but are polished with a fashionable style. Perhaps of these reasons, many from Hong Kong sealed him as the Hong Kong version of Jay Chou and David Tao. Although Jay Chou's songs win in this comparison because his songs are easily remembered once you listen to it, Khalil's songs are filled with a nostalgic atmosphere. credits: chinatimes, asianfanatics.
hes got talent... gotta give him that... his songs are nice and smooth... which i think the hk music industry lacks... and hes got his own style... which makes him stand out compared to other hk artists which sings pretty much the same style of songs...
wow born in hawaii....nice to hear some people born in hawaii makin it big in the asian industry...but i do have to say that his songs are smooth and i could probably listen to them all day...
It'd be interesting if there was someone talented like jay chou, but it sucks to always be compared but in this case it's quite a big compliment
