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Pop singer Sandy Lam
2010-02-22
Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam performed at Shanghai Grand Stage on Friday night. It was the first stop of her national tour called "One Zero Sandy".
Sandy Lam is one of the evergreen female singers on the Chinese pop scene. Many of her hits are still karaoke favorites. As the singer begins a new "Sandy" swirl across the mainland, let's take a retrospective look at her career that has spanned over two decades.
Sandy Lam has fans in Hong Kong, the mainland, Taiwan, and other Asian countries. She's been dubbed the music queen of the Chinese pop world.
She stepped into the showbiz spotlight after serving as a D.J. for Commercial Radio Hong Kong. And began her singing career in mid 1980s when she was signed to CBS Sony.
Starting with a youthful girl image, Lam gradually showed her strength both in singing and dancing. She combined western pop into Canto pop, and issued a string of "city-rhythm" tracks. Her mellow voice and tender delivery of songs rapidly won her legions of fans.
She won for three consecutive years for the best female singer trophy at the Hong Kong Pop Awards in early 1990s, and forged her status as Hong Kong's pop queen.
In the mid 1990s, Lam switched her focus from performing in Hong Kong to markets beyond, like Taiwan and the mainland. She also released a string of hit songs.
Only 159 centimeters in tall, and with a pair of small, and plain-looking eyes, Lam thought of herself as an ugly duckling before high school. But after marching onto the pop scene, she first adopted a Japanese idol image, then later found an image suited her most, a mature girl who is seeking love. She wore her hair in curls and had a wild and perplexed expression in her eyes.
In 1988, Lam signed with Warner music and released three "City Rhythm" albums, in which urban women's life, love, happiness and sorrow were depicted.
In 1990, Lam gained huge popularity with her debut Mandarin album release "Home Without You". The title song became a smash hit in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Mainland.
In 1993, Lam released another Mandarin album "No Need to Care Who I Am" under rolling stone label, with songwriter Jonathan Lee as the supervisor. It was Lam and Lee's second collaboration after they sang a duet for theme song of movie "Farewell, My Concubine", "When Love Becomes Past Stories". The two became partners both in life and career after that.
In 1995, Sandy teamed with Lee to release her 4th Mandarin album "Love, Sandy", featuring the hit single "Scars". "Love, Sandy" became one of the all time best selling Chinese language albums, with 4 million copies sold. With that album, she established herself as an indisputable Asian pop star.
Lam shun the public scene for a while in 1998, after giving birth to her daughter. Then in 1999, She released "Spunky Rose" featuring electronic styles.
In 2000, Lam released "Sandy's" after signing with Virgin. The hit song "At Least I've Got You" led KTV music charts for eight months around China.
Then after a five-year hiatus, Lam returned to the pop scene in 2005 with the release of her Cantonese album "True Colors", and held a concert series at Hong Kong Coliseum at the end of year.
She went on to hold a world concert tour the following year, entitled "Night Scene Without Boundaries", with stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, United States' Lake Tahoe, and Malaysia.
Then Lam release another Mandarin album "Breathe" and sang at the "Friends of Love The Earth 2006 Concert" in Japan.
From 2008 to 2009, Lam spent two busy years staging concerts around the world. Now Lam has unwrapped another national concert tour this year, entitled "One Zero Sandy", with the first stop in Shanghai on February the 19th. Her next stops will be Beijing, Tianjin and the southern city Foshan. Lam will release another Mandarin album in the second half of this year.
After two decades of phenomenal success, it seems that Sandy Lam hasn't slowed down one bit in the Asian pop music scene.
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