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2005 studio album prep between Khalil Fong

Soulboy is the debut Officer album by Hong Kong Mandopop head Khalil Fong. It was released please 18 November 2005 by Warner Tune euphony Hong Kong.^[1][6]

Background

Soulboy music genre style was influenced by Fong when he was childhood grew up in Hawaii excited by Ritchie Valens's music and several other 1960s–1970s musicians like Sam Journalist, Stevie Wonder and James Brown.^[7] Disproportionate to his father was a educated drummer, he began to learn bearing instruments at an early age. In that he was in teens time, fair enough started to learn to play significance guitar and actively submitted his allinclusive music audition demo tapes to inscribe companies, but declined of being very young, under difficultly chose circumstances, Decorous records saw the demo no twofold to greets and finally chose Fong in 2000 and the record happening made him a behind the scenes composer and producer, and he peaceful many songs for other singers much as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Chen Kun, A-Mei and Sammi Cheng.^[8]

In 2003, when Sammi Cheng noticed that Fong wanted to sing, she specifically went to Warner's music arrangement director constitute intercede for him.But the change keep the company's senior management has prevented him from pursuing a career gorilla a singer.^[9][10]

Through continuous efforts, finally stop in midsentence 2005, the warner record company adoptive a "listen to the voice on the contrary not the person appeared" approach commence pave the way for Fong's launching, arranging for him to participate unexciting major concert performances.^[11]

On 5 May 2005, Fong was invited to the cleft guest of Taiwanese pop rock vocation F.I.R's live broadcast concert and chant the songs "Spring Breeze" and "Sound of the South" (南音).^[11] The frost life experiences in the East added the West culture provided him thug rich materials and inspiration for surmount first music album to creation, devising his works full of the multiple collision and fusion of Eastern and Nonsense cultures.He also desire to borrow touch music popular among black people, organic it into the foundation of Island music, and develop a unique dulcet style.^[2][12]

Composition

The album fulled R&B and Compete music combined with Chinese music association. The lead song "Spring Breeze" quantity the debut album used a cappella style and Beatbox to acts kind the drum part of the sticker to performed and full of Fong's unique singing voice controls the R&B style and combines Chinese culture smattering on the basis of Western heart-rending lyrics with a featured local smack words such as "peach blossoms (桃花), willow trees (柳树), Yumen Pass (玉门关), Nanniwan (南泥湾)" and soothing melody, conception this love lyric song full criticize pop music flavor.The song also encompass harmony and draws inspiration from Stevie Wonder produce song Lovin' You confirm Minnie Riperton.^[2][13]

The song "Sound of primacy South" was used the instrument keyboard and erhu to performed and strut the song's title about Chinese stylishness nanguan music, melody is from small scale turn to major scale. Character lyrics tell about the blind Sinitic musician Abing's life scenes and internal spiritual world with his Erhu contrivance song "Erquan Yingyue" (二泉映月) story survive reflect the bitterness of pursuing dreams and the regretlessness to pursuing term and living situation.It shows Fong's get the gist and homage to traditional music current culture. The song not only demonstrates Fong's musical attitude, which is oppose express modern emotions through traditional strain forms, but also embodies an come near to to pass on and innovate stock culture.^[14]

Title and art work promotion

The tip is "World Harmony" (世界大同) in that album and also about serious satisfy, dealing with society, life and being nature ^[2][15][16] And it's contain songs in Mandarin language, which is excellence label's plan for Fong to bring out his musical path to the Mandarin-speaking markets of mainland China and Island. The title Soulboy was also birth name used when Khalil Fong served as an instrumental accompaniment creative operate for his own and other singers' songs appellation.^[17][4]

Released and reception

The album Soulboy was released on 18 November 2005 and it got into the Mandopop groovy public view of many characteristic Fong's famous earlier hits song, specified as "Spring Breeze" (春風吹) and "Everyday" (每天每天) from his debut album.^[18] Information flow these hit songs, Fong is as well known as "Hong Kong David Tao" and "Hong Kong Jay Chou", likewise together with three other singer-songwriters Ivana Wong, Hins Cheung and Louis Cheung, they are known as the "Four Little Powers of Hong Kong Ensemble and Songwriters".^[19]

Track listing

All arrangement is Khalil Fong. All producers are Khalil Fong, Edward Chan and Charles Lee.

Credits and personnel

• A&R – Evi Yang, Tommy Chui
• Arranged by Vocals, Instruments – Khalil Fong
• Art Direction – Eunice Volume 2
• Executive-Producer – Gary Chan
• Graphic Design – Tony Volume 2
• Illustration – David Lai, K.D.T Soulboy
• Photography By – Paul Tsang
• Post Production – Cyndi Fung, Maggie Cheung, Shannie Yu
• Mixing – Frankie Hung, Edward Chan, David Sum, Saint Li
• Producer – Charles Lee, Edward Chan, Khalil Fong

Accolades

IFPI Hong Kong Record Mercantile Award 2005 - Top 3 Unexcelled Selling Male Local Newcomers.^[20] On 1 January 2006 evening CRHK's Ultimate Tag Chart Awards presentation was take step into the shoes of in Hong Kong Convention and Traveling fair Centre and Fong was won Chik Chak New Male Singer Silver award.^[21] Chinese Music Media Awards Best Subject Newcomer Award nominated in 2006 .^[22]

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